BIOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPITIVE

MATTER PERTAINING

TO OUR ILLUSTRATIONS FROM

TULARE TOWNSHIP.

1879

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN W. BIRD was born May 18, 1819, at Martindale, Westmoreland County, England.  In 1848 he went to Australia, where he remained eighteen months, and then sailed for San Francisco, at which place he arrived June 4, 1850.  Upon his arrival he went immediately to the mines, where he remained but a short time, going to San Joaquin County, and embarking in the farming business, which business, in conjunction with stock raising, he has followed continuously ever since.  Mr. Bird has 480 acres in Tulare Township, where he resides, all under cultivation and well improved, stocked, and furnished with adequate machinery for a successful farming business.  In addition to this he owns 480 acres in the southwestern portion of the County, which he uses as a sheep ranch.  On the 16th of June, 1867, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Poor, of Stockton.  A view of his place will be found elsewhere.

WILLIAM BURNETT was born in Gloucestershire, England, June 2, 1819.  October 13, 1839, he married Miss Hannah Yemm, of the same place.  They have had twelve children, eight of whom are now living.  When he was twenty-two years of age he enlisted in the English military service for the term of twenty-one years.   England being at that time at war with the natives of New Zealand, his regiments was sent to Australia.  He was severely wounded in the shoulder, and was under the surgeon’s care for about a year.  After nearly eight years’ service he succeeded in purchasing his discharge.  After his discharge he remained in New Zealand, and was employed in smelting cooper by the Aberdeen Company of Scotland.  He came to California by vessel in 1852, and went direct to San Joaquin County, where he engaged in farming and fruit raising.  He purchased the place where he now resides, in Tulare Township, on the San Joaquin river, in 1873, and in the same year erected his house at a cost of $1,400.  A view of his residence is given elsewhere.  He devotes his attention chiefly to fruit raising, in which he has been very successful.   He has 212 acres of land, all of which are under cultivation, or occupied by thrifty fruit trees. 

AUGUSTUS DAUGERS was born in Hanover, Germany, December 11, 1835.  He came to the United States in 1853.  He settled in the western part of Texas, where he resided about five years.  In 1859 he went to Central and South America, where he lived three years, about two and a half years in Chiriqui, and a short time in Costa Rica.  He came to California in 1863, and settled in San Joaquin County, about six miles from his present place.  He purchased a farm on Robert’s Island in 1868, where he has since continued to reside.  His farm contains 360 acres, and is about ten miles from Stockton and two miles from Lathrop.  His land is nearly all under cultivation and is extremely fertile.  He claims to have raised as high as 80 bushels of barley and 110 bushels of oats to the acre.  He raised, in 1878, 23 bushels of wheat to the acre on land that had been reclaimed.  The barns and farm-buildings are good and commodious.  His house was built at a cost of about $1,000 in 1871.  A view of this farm will be found on another page.

CARL CONRAD FREWERT was born March 12, 1824, in Prussia.  He was married in Hamburg in 1849, to Miss Eulia Agers, of Hamburg.  In the summer of 1850 they sailed for San Francisco, coming around the Horn.  He laid brick in San Francisco until 1851, at which time he came to San Joaquin County, and pre-empted the land he now occupies in Tulare Township.   He has since resided there and on a place he owned, four and a half miles from Stockton, on the San Joaquin river.  They had three children, all of whom are now dead.  Mrs. Frewert died in 1853.  In 1863 Mr. Frewert went to Hamburg, where June 2, 1867, he married Amelie Hager, a native of Prussia.   She died December 24, 1872.  They had two children, of whom one is now living.  On the 14th of May, 1873, he was married, in Stockton, to Miss Johanna F. Tabert, also a native of Prussia.   His farm contains 276 acres, nearly all of it well improved and cultivated.  In 1867 he finished building the house he now occupies.   In 1877 he started a ferry over San Joaquin river, known as Frewert’s Ferry, a view of which, with his residence, is given elsewhere.

AUGUSTUS HAUSON was born at Guttenburg, Sweden, July 18, 1818.  He came to America in 1839, landing at New York City.  For a number of years he followed the life of a sailor, serving before the mast for fourteen years, and eight years in the capacity of second mate.  He arrived in San Francisco April 7, 1850, by the bark San Domingo, and started for the head-waters of the San Joaquin river in a boat.  After spending six months in the mines, he returned to San Francisco, where he entered a wholesale clothing establishment.  Here he remained sixteen months, and then spent two years in Stockton, at the expiration of which time he sailed for Newburyport, Massachusetts.  In 1859 he returned to Stockton, spending his time there and in the mines until 1868, when he purchased his present place in Tulare Township.  He owns eighty-seven and a half acres of good land, all under cultivation, and well stocked and worked.  A view of his place is given elsewhere.  He married Miss Mary Howard, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, April 22, 1854.   They have one child.

GEORGE M. KASSON was born at Granby, Connecticut, February 13, 1813.  When eighteen years of age he commenced trading through Pennsylvania and the southern States, and continued until 1840, when he embarked in the livery business in St. Louis, keeping also a sale stable.  He sold his business in 1850 and started across the plains for California, arriving at Placerville, August 5 of the same year.  He engaged in mining there and at Yuba and Feather rivers for eighteen months, when he returned to the States.  The climate of the States was too severe and he soon returned, going both ways by the Mexican route.  He commenced ranching on the Merced river, but soon sold out, and took up a farm below Hill’s Ferry on the San Joaquin river.  He disposed of this and went into the cattle business in Fresno County.   Selling his interest in that he went into the sheep business, and finally purchased, in 1868, the place where he now resides.  His ranch is situated in Tulare Township, and contains 5,212 acres of well improved land.  He is quite extensively engaged in stock raising, which business he pursues in a systematical and practical manner.  He has all the facilities for this and for general farming.  A view of his place is shown on another page.

MARTIN LAMMERS was born in Hanover, Germany, October 26, 1831.  He emigrated in 1853, arriving in San Francisco August 19, of that year.  He purchased a farm near Martinez, in Contra Costa County, but after two years of farming sold his place, and went to San Francisco, where he engaged in the grocery business until 1865.  He married there, in 1860, Miss Dorotea Fink, also a native of Hanover.  In 1865 he sold his grocery business and spent a year visiting in Germany.  Upon his return he preempted 160 acres of land in San Joaquin County, to which he has added from time to time, until now his farms contain 1,400 acres, of which 1,200 acres are being cultivated.  In addition to his grain crops, he makes a specialty of breeding fine blooded stock, of which he has many on his place.  His farm is well cultivated, and supplied with the machinery, buildings, fences, etc., appertaining to a well conducted farming business.  In 1875 Mr. Lammers was elected by the Republican party to represent San Joaquin County in the State Legislature.  His ranch lies in Tulare Township.  A view of his place is given elsewhere.

CHARLES LINDSTROM is a native of Sweden, where he was born on the 1st day of June, 1828.  He came to California in the spring of 1858, where he followed the wild and exciting life of a hunter for a number of years.  In 1866 he purchased the place which is now his residence, situated on the San Joaquin river, in Tulare Township.  His farm contains 132 acres, all well cultivated, and to which he devotes a great deal of care and attention.  In 1877 he started a ferry over the San Joaquin river, known as Lindstrom’s ferry.  He was married to Miss Adaline Truitt, of San Joaquin County, August 13, 1865, who died at their home, April 19, 1872.  They had two boys, both of whom are still living.  A view of his place and ferry will be found on another page.

HENRY NEWMAN was born November 27, 1851, at Springfield, Illinois.  When he grew up he clerked in a hotel and clothing store in Springfield until he came to California, which he did, across the plains, in 1871.  He went to Mariposa Co., where he kept a boarding-house in connection with his father, who had come to this State in 1852.  He went from there to Merced, in Merced Co., where he was employed for three years, when he came to Stockton.  He was married in San Francisco, in March, 1877, to Mary F. Rock, and has one little boy.  He owns a ranch in Tulare Township on the San Joaquin river, containing 183 acres of choice bottom-land.  The soil is a loam, and its proximity to the river renders irrigation unnecessary.  He raises barley and other grains, potatoes, cattle, horses, hogs, etc.  The farm is well supplied with barns, granaries, sheds, tools and machinery.  A view of this place is given elsewhere.

THOMAS OHM is a native of Germany, in which country he was born in 1842.  He came to America in 1866, and to California in 1867, settling in San Joaquin County, which has since been his residence.  His farm is situated in Tulare Township, and contains 320 acres of choice land, all of which is under cultivation.  Besides his own land, he cultivates 1,120 acres of rented land, making in all, 1,440.  He raises grain, chiefly wheat, to the growth of which the character of the soil is especially adapted.  He has all the machinery required for the profitable working of the large tracts of land he is cultivating.  His farm is well-stocked, and improved with buildings, granaries, etc.  In addition to his farming interests, he is engaged in the business of general merchandising, as a member of the firm of L. Borach & Co., of Bantas.  A view of his place will be found elsewhere.

SAMUEL A. OVERHOLTZER was born in Lancaster County, Penn., on the 3d of March, 1837.  When he was twelve years of age he removed with his parents to Ohio, and in the following year to Ogle Co., Illinois, where he engaged in farming.  On the 4th of November, 1854, he married Miss Maria E. Harnish, of Carroll Co., Ills.  They have had eleven children, nine of whom are still living.  In the spring of 1864, he came overland with his family to California, settling in Yolo County.  He was drowned out of this locality, and came to San Joaquin County, preempting 160 acres of land in Tulare Township, upon which he now resides.  Since that time he has acquired by purchase 160 acres additional, making a farm of 320 acres, all cultivated and well-stocked with cattle, machinery, etc.  A view of his place is given on another page.

 

Transcribed by Susan Vomocil.

Source: “History of San Joaquin County 1879” by Thompson & West.  Pages 131-133.

© 2012  Susan Vomocil.

 

 

 

     

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