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MRS. JOHANNA BROUND
An honored resident of San Joaquin
County, Mrs. Johanna Bround resides on the old Robert Stewart homestead
situated on the Lincoln Highway about one-half mile south of the Henderson
district school. She was born on this
ranch in 1864, a daughter of Robert and Catherine (Callahan) Stewart, the
former a native of County Antrim and the latter of Cork, Ireland. Robert Stewart was a young boy when he left
his native land for America in 1849 and came direct to California in an ox-team
train via the Salt Lake route, the journey consuming six months. Arriving in California he went to the mines
at Placerville and Coloma where he spent three years and there met with fine
success in his mining ventures. He then
came to San Joaquin County and bought a squatter’s title to a tract of land
about nine miles north of Stockton on the Stockton-Woodbridge Road. Besides paying for his squatter’s title, he
later paid the railroad company for the same land. He thus acquired a quarter section of land,
where he spent the remainder of his life.
Three children were born to this pioneer couple: Mrs. Johanna Bround, the subject of this sketch;
Mary Jane, Mrs. Bollinger and Robert, who died at the age of fifteen years.
Johanna Stewart received her
education in the Henderson district school and remained at home with her
parents until her marriage to Jacob Bround, which occurred January 17,
1888. He was a native of Denmark, whose
father died when he was a babe. At the
age of thirteen he left home and came to the United States and found employment
in Chicago, where he remained for ten years, when he came to California and
settled in the Wakefield district where he engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Bround then removed to eastern
Oregon and homesteaded a quarter section of land and also preempted a quarter
section of land in the same county; he also purchased additional school land
and their residence there covered a period of fifteen years. On account of his failing health, Mr. Bround
sold his Oregon land and returned to San Joaquin County and bought a quarter
section of land about five miles southwest of Lodi on the Davis Road, but was
not permitted to enjoy his new home, for he only lived seven months after his
return to California. He passed away on
November 7, 1903. Mr. Bround was an
active factor in all matters pertaining to the betterment of his locality and
was also an active lodge man. After her
husband’s death, Mrs. Bround lived in Lodi until 1920 when she removed to her
eighty-acre home place, a portion of the ranch owned by her father. Ten acres of this has been set to young
vineyard and the balance is in grain and there is a comfortable concrete block
residence on the place where Mrs. Bround makes her home. Mr. and Mrs. Bround have three children: Mary, Mrs. J. Louis Perrin, resides near Kingdon; Ethel, Mrs. Fred Sanguinetti,
resides near Acampo; Howard married Miss Gertrude Krebs and they have one
child, Audrey Marie. Fraternally Mr.
Bround was a member of the Ione Lodge I. O. O. F. in Morrow County, Oregon, as
well as a Mason. Mrs. Bround is a past
noble grand and past district deputy of the Rebekahs in Lodi.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
500. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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