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HENRY THOMAS HUBERT
Since 1876 Henry Thomas Hubert has
resided in San Joaquin County, where he has extensively engaged in farming and
stock raising and has steadily increased his land holdings until he now owns 560
acres twenty miles east of Stockton, near Waverly Station, on the Copperopolis
railroad. He was born on the Isle of
Guernsey, England, November 10, 1849, a son of Daniel Hubert, a native of the
same place, who was a pilot on the boats that plied the English Channel for
many years. He married Miss Martha D. Garis and they were the parents of ten children, of whom
Henry Thomas, our subject, is the second son.
Daniel Hubert lived to be sixty-one years old while his wife was
fifty-four when she passed away.
Henry Thomas Hubert was reared on a
farm in England and received his education in the public schools, and before
leaving home for America he had three years of military service. In 1874 he left home on the steamship
Atlantic and arriving in Ontario, Canada, he worked for two years at farm work;
in the spring of 1876 he arrived in San Francisco and came direct to San
Joaquin County, where he was employed for ten years on various ranches in the
Linden section of the county. Meantime,
in 1882, he made an extended visit to relatives and friends, returning in the
fall of the same year to California, content to make his permanent home here.
On September 9, 1886, Mr. Hubert was
married to Miss Jessie Lane, born in Texas, January 26, 1867, a daughter of
Cornelius Lane, who had come to California in 1879 and settled near Lockeford,
where he passed away. Mrs. Lane, a
native of Tennessee, was Miss Louisa Gill.
Mr. Hubert’s first purchase of land was in 1886 on the Calaveras River
below Jenny Lind, where he engaged in general farming with Fred Shelton for
about six years. He then sold this ranch
and invested his capital in his present ranch, buying first 120 acres, then
additional land, until he now owns 560 acres of good, productive soil on which
he raises a fine quality of wheat and barley; for the past fifteen years he has
also conducted a dairy, as well as raising poultry and other livestock. Mr. Hubert became a U. S. citizen at Stockton
and for thirty-five years has been a member of the Linden Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
968. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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