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JOHN A. DUPLISEA
A farmer and vineyardist living at
Lodi, San Joaquin County, is John A. Duplisea, who has been a public-spirited
citizen of this section of the state since 1908. He was born in Princetown,
Maine, on January 20, 1863, a son of A. J. and Hannah (Byers) Duplisea. The father was a carriagemaker by trade, and
was the parent of eleven children, eight of whom are living, John A. being the
only one residing in California. Their
names are as follows: Tillie, Eileen,
Elsie, John A. (of this sketch), Edward W., Frank, Anabelle, Ada, Maude, June
and Lou. The father is still living at
the age of ninety years; the mother passed away at the age of sixty-eight.
John A. Duplisea received his
education in the public schools of his native town, and when he was eighteen
years old selected the painter’s trade as an occupation. After following his trade at Princetown and various places in New England, he went to
Montana and engaged in sheepraising in Dawson County, where he had as many as
5,000 head in one flock, ranging them on government and railroad land. The sheep business occupied him four
years. Returning to his native state he
again took up his trade and worked for four years. He then returned to Montana, and after living
there eight years went to New Brunswick, Canada, where he spent one winter.
The marriage of Mr. Duplisea was
solemnized in New Brunswick in 1905, when he was united with Miss Letitia
Anderson, a native of that place and a daughter of Charles and Elenor Anderson. Her
father was a millwright by trade. Mrs.
Duplisea was educated in the schools of New Brunswick. There were five children in the family: Anna, Letitia, Charles, George and
Hannah. Her father lived to be
seventy-six, and her mother seventy-two years old. In 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Duplisea left New
Brunswick for California, and settled in Lodi, where they purchased fifteen
acres, a Tokay vineyard, about one-half mile east of Lodi on the traction
line. Among the improvements that Mr.
Duplisea has put on his home place is an electric pumping plant for irrigating
his ranch.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1463. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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