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HENRY BRACK
For a long period of successful
activity Henry Brack has been intimately associated with the material growth of
Stockton. Unostentatious in manner,
broad in information, liberal in views and his means, he adds to these
advantages the fact that he is a native-born son of the state and throughout
all his life has been intensely interested in its progress.
The founder of the family in
California was Jacob Brack, a native of Switzerland, born in 1825. His marriage in 1854 united him with Miss
Lena Meyer, a native of Germany, who came to California in 1852.
Born in Stockton, California, on
March 4, 1857, Henry Brack attended the district schools, later supplementing
this with a course in the California Military Academy in Oakland and Heald’s
Business College in San Francisco. He
then became associated with his father on the ranch and in later years became
its manager, and under his wise supervision the large holdings of his father
continued to prosper. For many years he
industriously labored in building up his cattle business and he deserves the
reputation of being among the most able stockraisers in the great state of
California.
After the death of his father in
1912, the ranch was divided and he sold his interest and removed to Stockton,
where he has since made his home. His
marriage on June 11, 1884, united him with Miss Lena Wagner, a daughter of
Jacob Wagner, born at Baden-on-the-Rhine in 1830, a pioneer of the Golden
State, and they were the parents of one daughter, Emma D., who passed on in
February, 1911, at the age of twenty-six.
Mr. and Mrs. Brack have been liberal contributors to charities
throughout the county.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
720. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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