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FRANK A. FALLMAN
One of the pioneer families of
California is that which now finds a representative in San Joaquin County in
Frank A. Fallman who, for the past twenty-six years
has been active in the development of Delta farms, being connected all those
years with the dredgers that are constantly at work reclaiming the delta lands
of the county. A native California, he
was born at Rio Vista, California, August 14, 1869, a son of Louis Fallman, a native of Germany, who came to California via
Panama in 1857, where for many years he was engaged in blacksmithing on Grand
Island.
Frank A. Fallman
was reared and educated at Rio Vista and learned the trade of blacksmith with
his father. At eighteen years of age he
shipped on a vessel to Alaska hunting for seals and on returning to California
he went into business for himself on Grand Island. In 1893 he took a second seal hunting trip to
Japan and Alaska, and upon returning to California, he began work on the Grand
Island dredge and later was placed in charge of same, remaining for seven
years; then he went to Roberts Island in charge of the dredger, which occupied
him three years. In March, 1903, he
entered the employ of L. A. Phillips, where he has remained up to the present
time. He has taken an active part in
reclaiming the delta country lands and was with John Hurd in the first
reclaiming of Union Island. The dredging
outfit of which he is now in charge, consists of four
large clam dredgers, two large clam dredgers, one steam shovel, several large
tow boats, one steamer and one electric pump, and in the busiest season of the
year has charge of seventy-five men.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
430. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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