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MRS. MARY THOMAN AGIEN
Among the pioneer women of San
Joaquin County, Mrs. Mary Thoman Agien is well and favorably known. She is a good business manager, and since her
husband’s death has most creditably borne the obligations and duties laid upon
her by that event; she owns the family residence in Stockton where they have
resided since 1910, as well as desirable store rental property located at 1146
East Main Street and other valuable real estate in that city; also property in
San Bruno, Half Moon Bay and San Francisco.
She has lived in California since 1880, when she accompanied her parents
from Kansas to San Joaquin County. She
was born near St. Joseph, Missouri, in Kansas, a daughter of R. R. and Julia
(Summers-Titman) Wilcox, natives of Rhode Island and Indiana respectively. The father passed away in 1899 at Ripon, the
mother surviving him until 1914 when she passed away at Lathrop. Mrs. Agien was reared in San Joaquin County
and attended the Old Crow School, walking from the home place near Ripon to
school every day, a distance of a mile and a half.
In 1889 occurred her first marriage,
which united her with Daniel Thoman, a native of Switzerland, who came to
California in 1886. He was a carpenter
by trade and for a number of years worked with P. A. Buell, building
contractor, being entrusted with finishing work in which he was an expert;
later he entered the contracting business on his own account, which he followed
for fourteen years in Stockton and throughout the county. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Thoman became the parents
of two sons: Lloyd D. was born at
Lathrop in 1891 and is a graduate of the public schools; he married Miss Nellie
Morris and they have two children, Floyd D. and Nellie; they reside in Lodi,
where he is proprietor of the Lodi Hardware Company. The other son, Elmer, was born at Lathrop in
1894, also a graduate of the public schools of the county; for eighteen months
he served as a yeoman on the U. S. S. Virginia and during that time made five
trips across the Atlantic. He is single
and resides at the family home in Stockton.
Mr. Thoman passed away on April 15, 1915, his untimely death being a
severe loss to his family and the community where he had resided for so many
years. He was a member of the Foresters
and the Knights of Pythias in Stockton.
In 1918 Mrs. Thoman was united in marriage with J. Agien, a prominent
business man of San Francisco, who has since made his home in Stockton. Mrs. Agien is a past noble grand of the
woman’s auxiliary of the Foresters of America, San Francisco Chapter, and is
otherwise well known and highly esteemed in Stockton, where she has resided
since 1910.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1184. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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