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CHARLES HENRY W. BRANDT
C. H. W. BRANDT,
superintendent of the chicory factory in Castoria Township, was born in Germany
in 1840. He left his native home in 1855 for Texas, where he remained until
1859, when he went to Central America, remained two years, and then came to
California, in 1861, where he remained. He then spent a year in Stockton,
thence went to the banks of the San Joaquin river, ten miles from Stockton,
where he started as one of the proprietors of the chicory factory, which he has
held since 1872. The capacity of the works is 5,000 tons of chicory, which they
ship mostly to Chicago, San Francisco and St. Louis. They employ about 300
hands, counting those in the fields and the factory. Mr. Brandt owns a farm
adjoining the factory which contains 133 acres, mostly devoted to the raising
of chicory.
He was married in Stockton to Miss Theresa
Bachman, a native of Germany, born in 1853. They have nine children, namely:
Charlie, Freddie, August, Louis, Emil, Theresa, Dora, Mildred and Oscar, who
died in 1884.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 433-434. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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