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ANDREW G. ERICKSON
Among the attractive and
enterprising business firms of Stockton is the Gold Medal Creamery located at
31 South California Street, owned and operated by Andrew G. Erickson. He was born on a farm in McPherson County,
Kansas, on February 20, 1890, was taken by his parents to Victoria, Texas,
where the father, also named Andrew Erickson, passed away. The family remained there until our subject
was eleven years of age, then the mother and nine children came to California
in 1901, settling in Stockton.
The education of Andrew G. Erickson
was obtained in the public schools of Stockton, his business training starting
when he was employed by the San Joaquin Creamery and the Stockton Creamery,
where he learned butter making; he then took a course along the same line of
work at the University of California farm at Davis, California; then for five
years he was in charge of the butter making for the Oakdale Creamery in
Oakdale, Stanislaus County. In 1918 in
company with his brother Arthur L., the Gold Medal Creamery was purchased,
which was at that time a very small business, 200 pounds of butter was made
daily in the window of the factory, now 1,500 pounds is the daily output of
this factory, a remarkable growth in four years. In May, 1921 Mr. Erickson purchased the
interest of his brother, who is now the proprietor of the Paramount Creamery at
Turlock, California. Mr. Erickson’s
store space has been doubled and modern machinery installed. His Gold Medal brand of butter has become
very popular, three-fourths of the leading hotels and restaurants in the city
using it. He buys cream from the leading
dairies in the county, and it is pasteurized, made into butter, and sold
throughout the city. Mr. Erickson has
made a scientific study along the line of butter making and other milk products
and is considered one of the best informed men in the county on the subject,
and is at the present time one of the largest butter makers in the city.
The marriage of Mr. Erickson united
him with Miss Bessie Lenfesty, a native of Calaveras
County, California, and they are the parents of three daughters: Ernestine, Phylllis
and Charlotte. Fraternally he is a
member of Truth Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1280. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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