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HERMANN BLOHM
The manager of an excellent ranch of
160 acres located nine miles west of Lodi is Hermann Blohm,
who is successfully engaged in raising fruit and in general farming, having
sixty-five acres in vineyard. He is a
native of Mecklenburg, Germany, born May 9, 1886, his parents being William C.
and Fredericka (Spenker) Blohm,
both natives of Germany. The father came
to California in 1893 and settled first in Lake County, where he resided for
two years, then came to Lodi and settled on the ranch now occupied by our
subject. There were but two children in
the family, Hermann and Freda, Mrs. R. T. Stokes, who resides on the home ranch
with her mother and brother. The father
passed away in 1917, aged fifty-seven years.
Hermann Blohm
was educated in the Woodbridge and Turner district schools and spent the days
of his boyhood and youth on his father’s ranch.
He has always been engaged in general farming and the raising of fruit
and today is the manager of the 160 acres purchased by his father in 1900,
which he helped his father to improve, and now owned by his mother. The last elk seen in Elkhorn Township were
seen under an oak tree, still standing, on the ranch owned by Mrs. Blohm, and the old stage road between Stockton and
Sacramento ran through this ranch.
Sixty-five acres of the ranch is in productive vineyard, fifteen acres
in alfalfa, and the balance is devoted to pasture; the land is irrigated from
the Stockton-Mokelumne ditch. He is
systematic, methodical, practical and progressive in all his methods, and the
ranch with all its equipments is in keeping with modern ideas of fruit growing
and general farming. The ranch is
further improved with a fine house, blacksmith shop and other farm buildings. Mr. Blohm and his
father were among the organizers of and Hermann is a trustee of the Sycamore
Drainage District; he was one of the organizers and the present secretary of
the Sycamore Rural Telephone Line. His
political allegiance is given to the Republican Party.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1571. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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