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CARL C. BUSCH
A progressive citizen of the Ripon
section of San Joaquin County is Carl C. Busch, who is successfully combining
the development of a forty-acre ranch with contracting and building
activities. His excellent fruit and
dairy ranch west of Ripon demonstrates his characteristics of thoroughness and
ability which he has displayed in his career.
He was born near Copenhagen, Denmark, on his father’s farm on June 4,
1872, and attended the public school in the neighborhood until he was fourteen
years old. At this age he left school to
work on the home farm and two years later, when he was sixteen, he was
apprenticed to learn the carpenter’s trade, in which from the beginning, he
showed particular ability and aptitude for the trade and became a very
excellent workman. He remained in
Denmark until he was thirty-two years old, then
started on a trip to New Zealand on the S. S. Oroya,
the voyage consuming fifty-six days. His
stay in New Zealand covered a period of two and a half years, during which time
he was occupied at his trade of carpenter.
In May, 1907, Mr. Busch arrived in
San Francisco and for the following two years he worked at carpentering in the
Bay region, meeting with fair success.
Concluding to combine his knowledge of agriculture with his trade, he removed
to San Joaquin County and settled at Ripon, where he bought his present place
of forty acres five miles west of Ripon, which he has made into a productive
fruit, alfalfa and dairy ranch. During
his twelve years’ residence in San Joaquin County Mr. Busch has erected the Van
Allen district school building, the San Joaquin school building and numerous
country and town residences in the Ripon section of the county. He is now erecting the gymnasium for the
Ripon Union high school and his excellent workmanship bespeaks for him
continued prosperity. His brother,
Walter Busch, is married and has a family; he is a rancher three and a half
miles west of Ripon where he located in 1919.
Both brothers are substantial and progressive citizens and give an
active support to all development measures.
Mr. Busch became a U. S. citizen in 1914 at Stockton, and since that
time has voted the Democratic ticket.
Fraternally he is a member of Mount Horeb Lodge, I. O. O. F.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1455. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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