San Joaquin County
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ANDREW GOMES
A well-known citizen of San Joaquin
County, where he has lived for almost fifty years, is Andrew Gomes, who resides
on his thirty-four acre ranch eight miles southwest of Lodi, where he is
engaged in raising alfalfa and stock. He
was born in San Jose, California, November 27, 1862, a son of Joseph and
Lillian Gomes. Joseph Gomes was born in
Chihuahua, Mexico, and came to California when a young man, settling at San
Jose, where he engaged in farming pursuits; later the family removed to
Vallejo, California.
Andrew Gomes attended the grammar
school in San Jose and left home when he was thirteen years old and came to
Lodi, where he worked on various ranches in that vicinity for a number of
years. His marriage on December 23, 1897
at Lodi united him with Miss Charlotte Leetzow, born
on her father’s ranch six miles west of Lodi, a daughter of the pioneers
Gottfried and Mary Leetzow. Gottfried Leetzow
came to the Turner district of San Joaquin County in an early day where he
acquired valuable land and engaged in general farming. Mrs. Gomes is the eldest of a family of three
children, the others being Bertha, Mrs. Spenker,
residing in Lodi, and Max Leetzow, also residing in
Lodi.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Gomes removed to the Waterloo district of San Joaquin
County, where Mr. Gomes bought two acres for a home place. He was in the employ of the Wagner Meat
Company of Stockton, where he remained for twenty-one years. At the end of this time he purchased his
present ranch of thirty-four acres eight miles southwest of Lodi, which is
devoted to the raising of alfalfa and on which he runs about forty head of
stock; he has also built a small house on his ranch where the family resides. Some years before he bought his home place he
had acquired forty acres on the highway four miles south of Kingdon. Mr. and Mrs. Gomes are the parents of three
children: Fred, Nora and Verna. In politics Mr. Gomes is a Republican and
through his honorable business dealings he has won the entire confidence of his
fellow citizens.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1535. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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