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HULL J. CLANCY
Among the younger generation of
successful orchardists in the Christian Colony district is Hull J. Clancy, who
has won for himself a prominent place in the affairs of his locality. He was born in Acampo, California, on July 2,
1898, a son of John H. and Fanny (Towne) Clancy, the former a native of New
York State and the latter of California.
John H. Clancy became a representative farmer of the San Joaquin Valley,
and as foreman of the great Langford ranch aided materially in the development
and advancement of the county in general.
Six sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Clancy, as follows: Roy, a resident of Stockton; Cecil and Ellmore, whose sketch appears also in this work; Maurice;
Dewey; and Hull, of this sketch.
As a boy, Hull J. Clancy attended
the Houston grammar school and later the Lodi high school; and upon leaving
high school he assisted his father in farming until the time of his marriage,
after which he engaged in farming on his own account. Mr. Clancy’s marriage occurred in Oakland, California,
on July 27, 1919, and united him with Miss Blossom Killgore, a native of Fresno
County, and a daughter of J. N. and Anna M. Killgore. Her father, J. N. Killgore, came to
California many years ago and became agent for the great Chow-Chilla Development Company of Merced County. Mrs. Clancy was educated in the Lodi grammar
and high schools and the University of California. They are the parents of one son, John H. Mr. Clancy operates an eighty-acre orchard,
thirty acres in peaches and fifty acres in prunes, located at the first
cross-road north of the Mokelumne Bridge on the Victor-Christian Colony
Road. This orchard is highly improved,
being irrigated by a six-inch pump driven by a twenty-five horse-power direct-drive
Sterling motor. Politically Mr. Clancy
is a Republican. Mr. Clancy has always
been a very hard worker and has applied himself very closely to the task of
improving the land on which he is located; and he is now enjoying the reward of
his years of labor in the fortunate leasehold of one of the finest properties
in the county.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1096. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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