San Joaquin County
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MELVILLE R.
HOWLAND
A representative successful
viticulturist of San Joaquin County, Melville R. Howland resides on his home
place of seven acres southeast of Lodi.
He was born at Lathrop, California, on October 1, 1893, a son of Oliver
M. and Joanna (Remington) Howland.
Oliver M. Howland was also born at Lathrop, where his father had settled
in 1851 having crossed the plains to California that year. There were four children in the family: Humphrey B., Melville R., Aubrey O. and
Gertrude. The father passed away at the
age of fifty-one and the mother now resides in Stockton, California.
Melville R. Howland began his
education in Stockton, whither his parents had moved when he was two years old;
later the family removed to Santa Cruz and he attended the Santa Cruz High
School. He then took up civil
engineering and was employed by various companies throughout the state; then
for six years he worked for the city of Stockton as a civil engineer. His marriage occurred at Lodi on September 1,
1917, and united him with Miss Ruth Brown, a daughter of William C. and Emma McSherry Brown. The
father is a native of San Joaquin County and is a member of the well-known realty
firm of Ashley & Brown. The most
recent engineering work done by Mr. Howland was in reclamation work in the No.
2020 Reclamation District lying in the northeastern part of the county, but now
devotes most of his time and energies to the cultivation and further
development of his 140-acre Tokay vineyard at Escalon. This vineyard is under the South San Joaquin
County Irrigation Ditch and Mr. Howland has ample water for irrigating
purposes. On his home place of seven acres
he has built a modern bungalow and has installed a pumping plant. In politics he is a Democrat and fraternally
is a member of Stockton Lodge No. 218, B. P. O. E., Stockton Parlor No. 7, N.
S. G. W., and is past president of the latter order.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1547. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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