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H. WARFORD EKHOLM
An enterprising citizen who has been
identified with the Escalon district of San Joaquin
County since 1910, when he purchased a forty-six-acre tract, is H. W. Ekholm,
who developed his place to fruit and alfalfa, and is now leasing it while he is
engaged in carrying mail out of Escalon.
He was born near Rock Island, Illinois, January 16, 1876, a son of Peter
Ekholm, whose mother was Annie (Petersen) Ekholm. Peter Axel Ekholm was born in Sweden August
11, 1852, and by the time he was twelve was making shoes in his father’s shop
in Sweden, a trade he followed until he was twenty years old, when he left home
and boarded a westbound vessel at Gottenburg, and on September 9, 1872, landed
in Quebec, Canada; from there he went to Orion, Henry County, Illinois, and
soon thereafter he was married to Miss Julia B. Peterson, also a native of
Sweden, who had come to America in 1872.
From Illinois, Peter Ekholm removed to McPherson, Kansas, in 1880 where
for thirty-two years he engaged in farming and stockraising. In 1912 the family came to California
settling at Escalon, and Mr. Ekholm lived retired until the time of his death
on December 3, 1922. Here as in every
other place where he had ever lived he gained the friendship and respect of all
who knew him and his death brought deep sadness to the entire community.
H. W. Ekholm accompanied his parents
to Kansas when he was a small boy and received a good education in the public
schools of that state, then in 1908 completed a business course at Quincy,
Illinois. He then removed to Salt Lake
City, Utah, where he entered the employ of a large machine and wagon factory,
remaining with them about one year, when he took the civil service examination
and received an appointment to a position at Vallejo, California, where he
worked for two and a half years for the Government.
While residing in Salt Lake City,
Mr. Ekholm was married to Miss Amanda O. Edenburg, a native of Kansas, the
daughter of Peter and Matilda (Lundquist) Edenburg of Lindsborg, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Ekholm are the parents of three
children: Paul, Ruth and Carl, all
students in the Escalon public school.
In 1910 Mr. Ekholm bought forty-six and a half acres, partly improved,
near Escalon, and two years later moved his family to the ranch and until 1916
was engaged in raising fruit and alfalfa.
Again Mr. Ekholm entered the service of the Government and since 1916
has been employed in carrying the mail on a rural route out of Escalon. The family resides in a
fine home at the corner of French Camp Road and Raymond Avenue, and are
active members of the Lutheran Church at Escalon, of which Mr. Ekholm is a
trustee.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1468. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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