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Joaquin County
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F. JOSEPH DIETRICH
One of the leading real estate and
insurance men of San Joaquin County is F. Joseph Dietrich, a member of the firm
of Dietrich & Leistner, located at No. 26 South San Joaquin Street, Stockton. Mr. Dietrich is a native son of Stockton,
born on November 7, 1875, a son of Theodore C. and Marguerita
(Majer) Dietrich, the former born in Germany and the
latter in France, but both now deceased.
Joe Dietrich, as he is known to his
friends, was reared in Stockton and was graduated from the high school in 1893;
he then spent one year at the Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco, and soon
after returned to Stockton. In 1895, Mr.
Dietrich entered the county clerk’s office as a deputy under Otto Grunsky; and
during the six years he remained there he studied law, but did not take the
examination to enter practice. When the
newly organized Chamber of Commerce began to function, Mr. Dietrich was
solicited to act as assistant secretary in 1902, and he served until January 1,
1903, when he formed a partnership with Otto Grunsky and embarked in the real
estate business, with offices occupying all of a small building on North San
Joaquin Street, and began to build up a business under the name of Grunsky
& Dietrich. There was also a firm
doing a general real estate business under the name of Grunsky & Leistner;
and when Otto Grunsky retired from the firm of Grunsky & Dietrich, the
latter firm was merged under the name of Grunsky, Dietrich & Leistner, continuing
thus until the death of the senior member, E. M. Grunsky, when Dietrich &
Leistner bought his interest. They have
since continued in business and have grown to be among the leaders in their
field in the county, specializing in subdivisions, a feature in which they are
the pioneers. The firm also is
interested in the development of country properties, particularly in the
growing of English walnuts.
Mr. Dietrich was married on October
6, 1902, to Miss Henrietta Mann, the daughter of Stephen Mann, pioneer of this
county. Of this union four children have
been born: F. Joseph, Jr.; Stephen M.;
Marguerita; and Henrietta. Mr. Dietrich
is past president of Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N. S. G. W., and is a member of
Stockton Lodge, No. 218, B. P. O. Elks, and of Yosemite Club, Chamber of
Commerce, and Merchants & Manufacturers Association. For nearly twenty years he has been a member
of the board of managers of the Stockton State Hospital, having been appointed
by Governor Pardee and having served under the various governors ever
since. He is keenly interested in the
upbuilding of his county and is liberal with time and means in the support of
all progressive measures.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
617-618. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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