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CLAUDE ELMO FORE
A young and enterprising farmer of
the Lafayette district of San Joaquin County may be found in Claude Elmo Fore,
who is successfully farming a forty-acre tract of land on the Sargent Road,
four miles west of Lodi. He was born at
Clements, September 18, 1890, a son of Millard Henry and Eliza Demoretta (Miner) Fore, both natives of Missouri, whose
sketch will be found elsewhere in this history.
Claude Elmo Fore attended Woodbridge
School for one year; then his parents moved to Clements and he attended the Athearn School for two years; then the family removed to
Butte County, where they farmed 2,250 acres of land near Biggs, and here he
finished his education. In 1904 the
family moved back to Woodbridge, where they have since resided. The father passed away in 1909, while the
mother is still living on her ten-acre ranch two miles west of Lodi on the
Kelly Road. At twenty-one years of age
Claude Elmo Fore left home to make his own way, and for five years was employed
in the shipping department of the Holt Manufacturing Company at Stockton. He then returned to Lodi, and on June 6,
1916, was married to Miss Nellie Agnes Posey, a native of San Joaquin County,
daughter of John M. Posey, also represented in this history. Mrs. Fore attended the Turner district school
and was later graduated from the Lodi high school. Mr. and Mrs. Fore are the parents of three
children: Claude Elmo, Jr., Burdette
Marion, and Dorothy Lorraine.
Since his marriage Mr. Fore has had
charge of the forty-acre vineyard belonging to his father-in-law, and since
1918 has resided on the ranch. He is a
Democrat in his political affiliations, and fraternally is a member of Stockton
Parlor No. 7, N. S. G. W., and of Jefferson Lodge No. 98, I. O. O. F., Woodbridge. While in
the employ of the Holt Company and residing in Stockton, he became a charter
member of Battery C, National Guard of California, serving a term of three
years until mustered out. Public
progress, as manifested in material, educational and social advancement, is a
matter of deep interest to him and he gives earnest support to every measure
which he believes will contribute to the general good.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages 1534-1535. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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