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DAVID FINKBOHNER
A farmer and stock raiser, who is
also a native son of San Joaquin County, is David Finkbohner, who for the past
fifteen years has been in partnership with his brother in conducting a 260-acre
grain and stock ranch situated seven miles northwest of Stockton on Telegraph
Road. He was born in Stockton July 10,
1873, a son of Jacob and Barbara (Kuhn) Finkbohner. His parents were born in Germany, married in
the east, and crossed the plains to California.
They were early settlers of San Joaquin County, and their nine children,
six of whom are living, were as follows:
George, residing in Stockton; Barbara, of Oakland; Charles, of Stockton;
Sophia Estelle, of Santa Cruz; Frank and Benjamin, both deceased; Fred, in
Oakland; William, deceased; and David, of this sketch.
David Finkbohner was a young lad
when his parents died, and he was reared by an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Kuhn, in Salt Springs Valley, Calaveras County, where he attended school. At seventeen years of age he began to make
his own way, working for wages on various ranches
throughout California until 1907, when he returned to San Joaquin County and
went into partnership with his brother in ranching. They are engaged in raising grain and stock,
and also have a Tokay vineyard on the ranch.
On July 13, 1905, at Jamestown,
California, Mr. Finkbohner was married to Mrs. Ella (Gann) Hendsch,
a native of Salt Spring Valley, Calaveras County, and a daughter of Andrew
Jackson and Frances Ellen (Rountree) Gann, the former
a native of Tennessee, who came across the plains with ox teams in 1860, and
joined his two brothers, who had previously settled in California. Jack Gann, as he was known, first settled at
Farmington, where he engaged in the stock business. He moved to Calaveras about 1874. Mrs. Finkbohner has one sister, Emma, now
Mrs. August May, residing at Angels Camp.
The mother was born in Wisconsin and passed away at the age of
thirty-six. Subsequently, Mr. Gann was
married to Miss Ida Bence, by whom he had four
children: William, Edith, Belle (Mrs. Charles Pope, residing in Turlock), and May,
deceased at the age of fifteen years.
Jack Gann passed away at the age of sixty-two, while his widow is still
living at 303 East Arcade Street, Stockton.
By her former marriage, Mrs. Finkbohner had one son, Henry Hendsch, who resides in Stockton. Mr. and Mrs. Finkbohner are the parents of
two children, Frank Edmund and Doris.
Mr. Finkbohner, while residing in Calaveras County, was school trustee
for the Hodson School for many years, and he is now
serving as one of the directors of the Elkhorn School District.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1533. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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