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NEIL B. FABIAN
A worthy representative of that
honored class of Californians who are native sons of the state and who have
throughout their active careers been closely and usefully identified with the
welfare of their respective communities, Neil B. Fabian has been a resident of
San Joaquin County since 1917, and is a prosperous agriculturist. He was born in San Francisco on October 14,
1895, a son of Philip and Annie Schwartz Fabian, natives of Zempleberg,
Germany, and California respectively.
The father, who died in 1909, became a progressive citizen of San
Joaquin County and his interesting life sketch can be found on another page in
this work.
Neil B. Fabian began his education
in the public schools of San Francisco and from the grammar school entered the
Polytechnic high school where he completed the course in three and a half
years; then entered the employ of Baker & Hamilton, San Francisco, where he
remained for another year; then he entered the agricultural branch of the
University of California at Davis, spending two and a half years in the study
of animal husbandry, horticulture and agriculture. In 1917 he leased thirty acres of the A. Grunauer ranch on Union Isle, where he planted pink beans,
which yielded twenty-two sacks to the acres, each sack averaging 100 pounds,
for which he received eight cents per pound, a result most gratifying. The next year he located on 160 acres of his
father’s estate south of Tracy and there has erected a fine residence and
substantial ranch buildings. Mr. Fabian
has experimented on thirty acres of his land with Peruvian alfalfa which was
seeded in February, 1921, and the same year harvested 160 tons of hay; this
year his expectations are that the acreage will yield 275 tons. In time, Mr. Fabian expects to see the entire
160 acres to alfalfa; he is also establishing a thoroughbred stock and hog
business and is rapidly shaping his ranch to be one of the show places of
central California. Thus, Mr. Fabian has
demonstrated the wisdom of scientific farming methods properly and intelligently
applied.
The marriage of Mr. Fabian occurred
at Tracy and united him with Miss Lorraine Ritchey of Seattle, the accomplished
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ritchey.
Mr. Fabian is an active member of the San Joaquin County Farm Bureau and
is now serving his third term as secretary of the local bureau at Tracy; he is
also a director in Division No. 5 of the West Side Irrigation District;
fraternally he belongs to Sumner Lodge I. O. O. F. of Tracy and the Moose
fraternity of Stockton. The work which
his father inaugurated in behalf of this county in pioneer times he carries
forward and he is today classed with the leading agriculturists of his
locality.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
516. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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