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JACOB ENGELLANDT
One to whom San Joaquin County is
greatly indebted for the active and beneficial work he accomplished is Jacob
Engellandt, who was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, August 6, 1851, and at
the age of nineteen was drafted for service in the German army, serving until
he came to New York City on August 14, 1871.
The following year he spent in Washington County, Nebraska; then on
March 1, 1873, he came to Stockton, California.
He found employment on the Feck, Rockendorf, Captain Moss and Pat Elliott ranches, and in
1880 returned to his native country for a few months visit.
In 1889 Mr. Engellandt removed to
Woodbridge, where he farmed for six years, when he returned to Roberts Island
and farmed the Levy tract. Twenty-one
years ago he bought sixty acres from the George Hury
estate, where he made his home until seven years ago, when he retired on
account of ill health and removed to Stockton.
He passed through the disastrous floods of 1884 and 1886, when the
levees broke and the water covered the land, devastating the whole island. The flood of 1886 occurred in January, the
storm being accompanied by high winds which almost carried away the small farm
house, which consisted of two rooms.
That year he had seeded to grain 600 acres, doing all the work himself
with his eight-horse team, and all was a complete loss; glad enough were they
to escape with their lives.
The marriage of Mr. Engellandt
occurred in San Francisco, February 17, 1883, and united him with Miss Mary
Elizabeth Mann, a native of London, England, and they were the parents of four
daughters: Ida, the wife of A. F. Ruhl,
hardware merchant in Stockton; Mabel, the wife of H. E. McClure, a dairyman
here; Alice, the wife of J. C. McIntosh, proprietor of an electric planing mill
here; and Miss Edna Engellandt, who assists her mother in presiding over the
home. There are two grandchildren,
Bernard Jacob Ruhl and Aileen McClure.
Mary Elizabeth Mann was the daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Jones)
Mann, born in Scotland and Wales, respectively.
Her father was a civil and mechanical engineer and brought his family to
Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1872, and a year later to California, on an early
transcontinental train, arriving in San Francisco in the spring of 1873, where
he followed civil and mechanical engineering.
He died in San Francisco in 1905, his wife having preceded him. He was a prominent Mason for more than fifty
years. This worthy couple had two
children: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Engellandt
and Mrs. Alice Rice of Oakland. Mrs.
Engellandt was educated in the Lincoln school, San Francisco, Fifth and Market
Streets, opposite the U. S. Mint, which was burned at the time of the Fire in
1906. Mr. Engellandt died on March 16,
1922, at his residence in San Joaquin County, having covered a period of forty-nine
years, during which time wonderful changes had occurred. He was well read and interesting and a
faithful student of the Bible, being a member of the Lutheran Church. In 1879 he became an American citizen and no
native-born son was more faithful to his allegiance to the Stars and Stripes.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1448. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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