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JOSEPH C. CUNDELL
A businessman of practical and
progressive ideas, the late Joseph P. Cundell was
well equipped by years of experience in the dairy business and took an active
interest along these lines in San Joaquin County as the manager of the Stockton
Dairy Product Distribution Company, a branch of the California Central Creamery
Company. He was born in Butler County,
Kansas, on March 24, 1885, on his father’s farm, where he remained until he was
eighteen years of age; then he found employment with R. H. Hazlett
of El Dorado, Kansas, a large breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle; after
three years he removed to Independence, Missouri, and entered the employ of Gudgell & Simpson, the leading breeders of thoroughbred
Hereford cattle in the United States, and was in charge of 1,000 head of
cattle. In 1911 he removed to Honolulu
and became the manager for an 80,000-acre cattle and sheep ranch. In 1915 he located in San Joaquin County and
purchased fifty acres of the old Salmon ranch on the French Camp Road near
Stockton. This he developed into a
first-class dairy and alfalfa ranch, having a herd of thirty milch cows. He was a member of the advisory committee of
the Milk Producers Association of Central California, Stockton branch, and in
the summer of 1921 was made manager of the local Stockton branch, established
some four years ago. As a member of the
executive committee of the dairy department of San Joaquin County Farm Bureau,
Mr. Cundell contributed progressive plans and ideas
that are the products of thorough study and experience, and he was considered
an authority on the subject of milk products and dairy management.
Mr. Cundell’s
marriage united him with Miss Ethel Higinbotham, a
native of Kansas, and they were the parents of four children: Lois and Ruth are twins, born at Honolulu;
Robert and Karma are native Californians.
Fraternally he was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge No. 181 of Lenora,
Kansas. Mr. Cundell
passed away on August 26, 1922, at the Dameron
Hospital in Stockton and was buried in Park View Cemetery.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1581-1582. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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