San
Joaquin County
Biographies
JULIUS E. ENGLANDER
A representative member of the
agricultural class which has made the San Joaquin Valley one of the most
prosperous farming districts in the state of California is Julius E.
Englander. He is a pioneer of Union
Island, where he began his farming operations in 1880, forty-three years ago,
and his long residence and experience in Delta farming have made him prominent
and influential in the development and advancement of this portion of the county,
a citizen of more than ordinary degree of public spirit and personal
worth. He is a native son of California,
born in San Francisco, June 7, 1856, the eldest of six children born to Aaron
and Minnie (Pink) Englander, both natives of Germany. Aaron Englander left his native country for
America in 1849, arriving in San Francisco, then
called Yerba Buena, the same year, having crossed the plains with ox-teams and
wagons with two brothers, Leopold and Max.
He opened the first confectionery store on Second Street, which he
conducted for two years when he sold out and removed to Marysville, bought land
and engaged in farming, producing large crops of broom corn, which he exhibited
at a state fair in 1856, receiving therefore the first banner and medal ever
given for this product. In 1858 he
returned to San Francisco, where he opened a commission house on Battery
Street, continuing until his death in 1868, aged fifty years. Six children were born to this worthy pioneer
couple of whom only two survive, Julius E., the subject of this review, and
Samuel, superintendent of wharves in San Francisco. Aaron Englander was a prominent member of the
Masons, Odd Fellows and Red Men in San Francisco.
Julies E. Englander was reared and
educated in San Francisco, and early in life learned lessons of industry and
thrift and while still a young boy was employed in various stores and spent his
evenings at home in study. He remained
in San Francisco until 1873 when he removed to Livermore where he was employed
on the Watts stock range for three years.
In 1877 he was married to Mrs. Mary Phelps, widow of William Harrison
Phelps. There were two children in the
Phelps family, William and Ella May. Mr.
and Mrs. Englander are the parents of four children: Arthur Garfield, Maude C., Mabel M., and
Ethel L., all natives of San Joaquin County.
In the fall of 1880 the family removed to Union Island where Mr.
Englander engaged in general farming on the Pescardero grant, remaining there
for seventeen years when he removed to Hanford and farmed for five years. With the exception of three years spent in
San Francisco, Mr. Englander has been a continuous resident of San Joaquin
County since 1907, when he entered the employ of the Bixler Farms and fourteen
years ago he became foreman of the Canal ranch, where he carries on dairying,
stockraising and general farming. He
makes his home on the historic Kidd ranch fifteen miles southwest of
Stockton. He is active in the affairs of
the Democratic Party and serves on the election board.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1467-1468. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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