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GUSTAV ALBERT
For a quarter of a century Gustav
Albert has been a resident of San Joaquin County and during those years has in
many ways been identified with the best interests of his locality, being a
successful vineyardist and a citizen of public spirit. One of California’s sons, he was born on the
Alameda, San Jose, on October 4, 1867, a son of Adam and Caroline (Wolfrom) Albert. His
parents came to California in 1852 and his father became a partner of Mr. Eberhard in the founding of the Eberhard
Tanning Company at Santa Clara; his parents later moved to San Francisco and
Gustav, the only child, attended the Lincoln grammar school. Several years after his father died his
mother married again to Henry F. Stolzenwald and they
were the parents of seven children:
William, deceased; Henry, Fred, George, Caroline, Ida and Minerva. Mrs. Stolzenwald
died at the age of seventy-five on April 25, 1921. When he was sixteen years old, Gustav Albert
learned the dyeing and cleaning business in his mother’s establishment in San
Francisco and later owned his own business there for five years.
The marriage of Mr. Albert occurred
at Berkeley on May 10, 1892, and united him with Miss Elizabeth Taynton, also a native of California, born at Clayton, a
daughter of William and Susan (Derickson) Taynton. Her father
was a native of London, England, and came to California in 1848. He was a seafaring man and was in the U. S.
Navy on the frigate Ohio. He was in
three battles in the Mexican War and was at Monterey, Mexico, with Commodore
Stockton when the American flag was raised.
He remained in the service of the U. S. and enlisted in the army with
Col. Stephenson and Col. Stoneman to quell the Modoc
Indian uprising; later he located at Clayton and took up a quarter section of Government land and in 1884 removed to Berkeley
where he worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Mrs. Albert’s mother came to California via
Panama on the Golden Gate, the first steamer plying between Panama and San
Francisco. They were the parents of
twelve children: Charles, Broderick,
Mrs. Elizabeth Albert, Phoebe, Alfred, William, Thomas, Walter, Emma, Carrie,
Herbert and Bessie, all living but Phoebe, William, Thomas and Carrie. Mrs. Albert’s great-grandfather Davis fought
in the Revolutionary War.
In 1899 Mr. Albert sold his business
in San Francisco and removed to Lodi and bought the ten-acre tract of land,
where he now lives, one mile south of Lodi on Kettleman Lane. This was unimproved land and Mr. Albert set
out every tree and constructed the buildings, and engaged in general truck
farming, but later set out a vineyard and installed a pumping system. In politics he is a Republican and he and his
wife are members of the Christadelphian Society of
San Francisco.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
771. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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