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CONRAD BAUMBACH
A native of the Island of Krem,
Russia, Conrad O. Baumbach has been since 1906 a
continuous resident of San Joaquin County, where he has demonstrated what
industry and enterprise can accomplish.
He was born on June 8, 1866, and is the eldest of a family of eight
children of Conrad and Mary (Olenborger) Baumbach, the others being as follows: Lenhardt, Karl,
Mary, John, Louisa, Lydia and Robert.
When eight years old, Conrad accompanied his parents to the United
States and the family settled near Yankton, South Dakota, where the father
homesteaded a quarter section and preempted a quarter section and also a
quarter section timber claim, which was devoted to the raising of grain. Both parents died when about sixty-four years
old. When his father located in the
Northwest there were no public schools, and the education of Conrad O. Baumbach
was therefore limited; but he was well versed in the best methods of
cultivating the land, kinds of soil, and the most profitable crops.
On March 28, 1886, Mr. Baumbach was
married to Miss Elizabeth Bechthold, a sister of Abraham Bechthold, also
represented in this work, and a daughter of Henry and Lottie (Baumbach)
Bechthold. For the first three years of
their married life the young couple remained at home with his parents and farmed
land Mr. Baumbach had rented; he then removed to Kansas and worked at his trade
of stone mason, bricklayer and plasterer at Hillsboro, which occupied him for
nine years, when he came to California.
He purchased his home place, consisting of nine acres in two-year-old
Zinfandel grapes; and then bought a ten-acre vineyard, which he held for eight
years and sold at a good profit, and purchased a twenty-acre vineyard south of
Kettleman Lane devoted to Tokay and Zinfandel grapes. On his home place, Mr. Baumbach has installed
a four-inch pump driven by a four-cylinder Overland automobile engine which his
son installed for him, and on his twenty-acre vineyard he has installed a
deep-well Byron Jackson turbine pump with a capacity of 700 gallons a
minute. Mr. and Mrs. Baumbach became the
parents of five children, all of whom are deceased. The first three died in infancy and the
fourth child, George, died at the age of two years; Fred, who was a skilled
mechanic, was killed in November, 1920, by a traction line car. He was married to Emma Reimche
and had a child, Elmer Elton. In
politics Mr. Baumbach is a Republican.
He is a member of the Church of God in Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1248. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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