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WILLIAM FRANK HOLBROOK
Foreman of construction of roads and
bridges in San Joaquin County, William Frank Holbrook was born at Bristol
Station, Kane County, Illinois, December 23, 1874, a son of I. W. and Sarah
(Huffman) Holbrook. His father was a
farmer and a cooper by trade and in 1889 came to California, first settling in
Stockton, then later he removed to Hayward, where he passed away at the age of
seventy-two. He served in a company of
cavalry during the Civil War. The mother
of our subject lives in Campbell, California, aged seventy-four years. William F. Holbrook had little opportunity
for an education, having to make his own living at twelve years of age, working
at odd jobs on ranches in the neighborhood of his home.
On November 9, 1894, in Oregon, Mr.
Holbrook was married to Miss Ella Thompson, a native of Indiana, a daughter of
David and Mary (Smith) Thompson. In 1904
he came to Stockton to reside and found employment at the Stockton Iron Works,
where he remained for three years. In
1907 he removed to Oakland, where he learned the carpenter trade and remained
there for three years, when he returned to Stockton. At the time the county highway commission was
first formed he became foreman of bridge construction, then he spent one year
as foreman of construction for the State Highway Commission and since that time
has been employed by the county in road construction. Mr. Holbrook has owned a number of ranches
throughout the county, which he later disposed of to good advantage. At one time he owned a twenty-acre tract of
the Joshua Cowell estate at Manteca. Two
years ago he moved into his commodious new home located at 414 West Acacia
Street, where he and his wife and adopted daughter, Mildred Thompson,
reside. In politics he is a Republican.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George H., History of San
Joaquin County, California , Page
1470. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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