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FRENZ W. HUCK
One of the well-known and respected
citizens of San Joaquin County is Frenz W. Huck, whose life history furnishes a
good example of what may be accomplished through determined purpose and well directed
effort. His earliest recollections are
of farm life and since seventeen years of age he has been prominently
identified with farming interests, conducting his father’s ranch near Tracy at
that early age. A native son of
California, he was born on his father’s ranch near Tracy, June 20, 1872, the
only son of Frenz and Margaretta (Warch)
Huck, both pioneers of this county, who settled in the New Jerusalem district
about 1868. The father, a native of
Germany, was a butcher by trade until coming to California, when he went into
the mines in Tuolumne County; later he settled on a ranch of 640 acres in San
Joaquin County, eight miles southwest of Tracy on the Vernalis Road. The mother came to California alone and
located at San Francisco where she met and married Mr. Huck in 1862, and they
were the parents of the following children:
Mrs. Eva Schmidt, Mrs. Caroline Jepsen, and Mrs. Margaretta Schmidt,
Frenz W. of this sketch, and Mrs. William H. Pope, whose sketch is also found
in this work. The father passed away at
Tracy April 9, 1904, the mother surviving him until December, 1906.
Frenz W. Huck was reared and
received his schooling in the New Jerusalem School District and at seventeen he
was bearing the brunt of the management of his father’s extensive grain ranch,
and three years later was farming the ranch on shares. In those early days in the development of San
Joaquin County, he sold grain as cheap as fifty cents per sack, but in spite of
the ups and downs, he has been successful and upon the foundation of unflagging
industry he has builded his present prosperity.
The marriage of Mr. Huck united him
with Miss Anna Maria Thoming, born in San Joaquin
County, a daughter of George and Lena (Mashoff) Thoming, both natives of Germany, as well as pioneers of
the New Jerusalem district of San Joaquin County,
having settled there in 1866. Mr. and
Mrs. Huck are the parents of three children:
Frances attends the West Side union high school, Lester and Lao are students
in the grammar school. For the past
twelve years Mr. Huck has served as school trustee of the New Jerusalem School
District and fraternally is a member of Sumner Lodge I. O. O. F., No. 177, of
Tracy; also a member of the Tracy Parlor N. S. G. W., while Mrs. Huck is a
member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, and they are members of the
Lutheran Church at Tracy.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1132. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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