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FRANK T. GREEN
A wide-awake, painstaking official
of San Joaquin County, whose extensive and valuable practical experience
constantly enables him to render service as efficient as it is willing, is
Frank T. Green, the county horticultural inspector for the Lodi district,
residing at 105 North Hutchins Street, Lodi.
He was born on a farm near Cambridge Junction in Lamoille County,
Vermont, on October 20, 1871, and as a young man followed farming in the Green
Mountain state until 1896, when he went to Boston. He was then at the age of twenty-five, and he
was for awhile employed by the Boston Street Railroad. Returning to his native state, he took up
farming for a year, and then he engaged in liverying,
under such conditions for example, that in some winters there were 150 days and
more of continuous sleighing. He rented
out sleighs, and did a lively business; but in time he tired of the long severe
seasons and decided to change climate.
Coming to California in 1907, he settled at Lodi, and for five years he
engaged in selling insurance, and then in 1912, he was offered and accepted his
present position with the County Horticultural Commission. In summer he inspects fruit and in winter he
superintends the extermination of rodents, squirrels, and weeds, which handicap
agriculturists. Understanding his
business, he has proven a valuable asset.
While in Lamoille County, Vermont, he served as a deputy sheriff, and
his experience enables him at times to render aid in behalf of law and order.
In 1920 Mr. Green bought a Tokay vineyard
of twenty acres which in a short time he sold at a handsome profit; and at
present he owns another ranch of twenty acres northeast of Lodi, where he has
seventeen acres in Tokay grapes, and three acres in Muir peaches. He was made a Mason in Waterman Lodge No. 83,
A. F. & A. M. at Johnson, Vermont, demitting to Lodi Lodge No. 256, F.
& A. M.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1600. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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