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HARVEY A. GOODMAN
The farming interests of San Joaquin
County find a worthy representative in Harvey A. Goodman, who makes his home on
his eighteen-acre vineyard on the Quimby Road in the
Lodi section of the county. His has been
a successful career and one which indicates the opportunities that are open to
young men of determination, ambition and diligence. He was born at Sycamore, Illinois, on June 1,
1852, a son of Henry and Lizzette (Brown) Goodman,
and is one of two children, the other being a sister, Francilia. When our subject was a small lad of two
years, the family removed to Chatfield, Minnesota, and here his father
homesteaded eighty acres of land; later he purchased thirty-five acres in the
same vicinity and engaged in farming.
Harvey A. Goodman received his
education in the grammar and high school of Chatfield, Minnesota, and on
Christmas Eve, 1874, was married to Miss Jennie A. Robinson, a native of the
same part of Illinois as her husband, and a daughter of Joseph Robinson, a farmer
who moved to Olmstead County, Minnesota, where he lived a few years, then moved
to Anoka, Minnesota, where he passed away.
Mrs. Goodman’s mother died in California at the age of ninety-four
years. Soon after his marriage Mr.
Goodman purchased a 120-acre farm and engaged in grain raising
for three years, then disposed of the farm at a good profit. He then removed to Grand Forks, North Dakota,
where he homesteaded a tract of land and later took up a timber claim and still
later added a quarter section to what he already had by purchase; this land he
farmed for twenty years, from 1874 until 1895, when he sold out and removed to
Lodi, California. He still owns a timber
claim in Aitkin County, Minnesota, consisting of eighty acres.
Upon settling at Lodi, Mr. Goodman
bought eighteen acres of grain land and immediately set about to improve it,
planting thirteen acres to vineyard, the vines being now twelve years old, and
five acres devoted to orchard, alfalfa and building space; he also erected a
comfortable residence and has installed a pumping plant. One acre of the orchard is in full bearing
cherries and one acre in young trees.
Mr. and Mrs. Goodman are the parents of four
children: Minerva, a practicing
physician at Stockton; Etta; Roy A., owner and proprietor of Goodman’s Groceteria at Lodi; and Alice, Mrs. Burnett, of
Stockton. Mr. Goodman and a daughter
jointly own ten acres just off Kettleman Lane one
mile south of Lodi; seven and one-half acres is in Tokay grapes and the balance
Empress, all full bearing. While
residing in Dakota, Mr. Goodman was supervisor of Inkster Township and for
three years was township assessor and three years
township treasurer. Politically he is a
Republican and fraternally a member of the Foresters of America, and which his
family is a member of the Congregational Church of Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1547-1548. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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