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OSCAR W. ECKSTROM
Five years ago Oscar W. Eckstrom
became actively identified with farming pursuits in San Joaquin County, when he
purchased twenty acres at the corner of Schutte Lane
and Waterloo Road, where he set out a new orchard and by his steady industry
and perseverance he has made his way to a front rank among his fellow citizens
in the Linden section of the county. He
was born near Saratoga, California, August 15, 1885, a son of John J. and
Minnie (Roos) Eckstrom,
both natives of Sweden. John J. Eckstrom
served three years in the army of his country prior to coming to America in
1876, locating in Gladstone, Illinois.
Eight years later, in 1884, he removed to California, locating near
Santa Clara, where he engaged in fruit raising.
In 1896 he located at Linden, California, where he was employed by D. W.
Miller. He had purchased twenty acres, which
he devoted to general farming and orchard.
In 1917 he sold the same and removed to Palo Alto, where he is now
living retired. Oscar W., the second
oldest of their three children, received his education in the public schools
and while still a young boy began to do ranch work for neighboring
farmers. In 1912 he went to Siskiyou
County and engaged in mining, later engaged in the same occupation in Shasta
County and spent about five years there, being fairly rewarded for his work.
In
1913 at Stockton, Mr. Eckstrom was married to Miss Isadora Whitcomb, a native
of Vermont, a daughter of Charles M. Whitcomb, who removed to Linden,
California, in 1910. Mr. Whitcomb passed
away a year afterward, survived by his widow, who makes her home on the
twenty-acre home place left her by her husband.
Mr. Eckstrom cares for his own twenty acres and also that of Mrs.
Whitcomb, the products of these ranches being peaches, almonds, apricots,
prunes and plums, besides considerable hay and grain. Mr. Eckstrom uses a tractor for the
cultivation of his land and irrigation water is supplied by a fifteen-horsepower
motor. Locally he is identified with the
California Prune and Apricot Association, California Peach Growers, California
Canning Association, and the California Almond Growers. Fraternally he is a
past grand of Scio Lodge No. 102, I. O. O. F., of Linden, and with his wife is
active in Opal Rebekah Lodge in Linden.
He is a well-known and popular citizen, and in many ways has performed a
useful part in the life of his community.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
658. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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