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STANLEY D. HERBERT
Among the more recent additions to
the horticultural industry in the Farmington section of San Joaquin County is
Stanley D. Herbert, who is the owner of the Littlejohn Creek Orchard,
consisting of eighty acres in producing orchard of cherries, apricots, prunes
and walnuts. He was born in 1879 in Dane
County, Wisconsin, a son of A. W. and Sarah P. (Baldwin) Herbert, now engaged
in horticulture at Ashland, Oregon. The
father is a native of the Isle of Wight, England, and Mrs. Herbert was born in
Indiana of French-Canadian parents. A.
W. Herbert located in Oregon in the ‘80s where Stanley D. received a good
education and was graduated from the Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon,
in 1901, with the degree of B. S. In
1902 he left home and engaged in civil engineer work in eastern Oregon
remaining there until 1904 when he entered the University of California at
Berkeley, taking a post-graduate course during 1904-5. He then followed civil engineering work in
California and Nevada, working on the Truckee-Carson reclamation project and in
Solano County and was engaged in this work for about ten years; he then became
superintendent of the Natomas Consolidated of
California in Sacramento County. During
1916-17 he was in the seed business at Stockton and sold out in 1918 just after
entering the service, and after the war he located on his farm southwest of
Farmington in 1920.
On October 11, 1919, Mr. Herbert was
united in marriage with Miss Ruth Hewitt, a daughter of W. T. Hewitt, a pioneer
of the Farmington section, San Joaquin County.
One son has been born to them, Edward William. Mr. Herbert served in the World War in the
104th Engineers and was at Camp Humphrey, Virginia. He was discharged with the rank of
captain. Fraternally he is affiliated
with the Charity Lodge, I. O. O. F. and the American Legion at Stockton; he is
a director in the San Joaquin County Cherry Growers Association and is a member
of the Prune and Apricot Growers Association and serves as the director of the
Farmington Farm Bureau. Reliable in
business, loyal in citizenship, he is highly esteemed by his many friends.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
848. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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