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SAMUEL L. KAMPSCHMIDT
A skillful and energetic automobile
mechanic, Samuel L. Kampschmidt is the owner of the Ever Ready Auto Repair
Company located at 16 East Miner Avenue, Stockton. His birth occurred at Lenexa, Kansas, August
23, 1890 a son of William and Mary (Wilkins) Kampschmidt, both natives of
Missouri. William Kampschmidt was a
carpenter and farmer by occupation and lived to be sixty-three years of age. The mother of our subject is still living in
Kansas. Ten children were born to this
worthy couple: Anna; Edward; Ida,
deceased; Frank; Albert; Alice, deceased; George; Robert, deceased; Samuel, the
subject of this sketch, and Oscar.
Samuel L. received his education in the Rosedale and Lenexa grammar
schools and while in his early teens began to make his own way. He went to Kansas City, where he worked for
four years at anything he could get to do to earn his way, and at the age of
seventeen arrived in San Francisco, where he worked one year at his trade of
baker, which he had learned in Kansas City; then he found work in a planing
mill in the Bay city which occupied him until he was employed by the Santa Fe
Railroad Company as fireman, his term of service covering a period of five
years. In 1912 he removed to Stockton,
where he worked for Aubrey’s Bakery; then he became fireman for the Sperry
Flour Company. He then received an offer
of a job in the Patterson garage on El Dorado Street, which he accepted and in
connection with his work took a course in automobile mechanics and within six
months was promoted to the position of shop foreman; then he became night foreman
for the Hansel & Ortman Garage. From
there he went to Modesto as manager for George A. Sesnon;
then came back to Stockton as the manager of Mr. Sesnon’s
business in this city; later he purchased his employer’s business and conducted
it successfully for a year and a half when he sold out and became
superintendent for Murphy-Cantrell Company, specializing in the repair of
Chevrolet automobiles, but his business has gradually expanded until he is now
equipped to repair all makes of cars.
Aside from his business in Stockton Mr. Kampschmidt is interested in
prospecting and mining and has two claims in Tuolumne County, in which he owns
one-half interest, the Florence placer bar above Groveland, and a quartz claim
ten miles above Columbia, both of which he is opening.
In Stockton on June 11, 1911 Mr.
Kampschmidt was first married to Miss Myrtle I. Gerard, a native of Stockton
and a daughter of William and Amelia Gerard.
William Gerard was a native of Nova Scotia who came to California in an
early day and followed his trade of carpenter.
One child was born of this union, Norman E. Mr. Kampschmidt was married the second time
to Miss Cora H. Linley, a daughter of Albert B. and Lucy (Johnson) Linley,
natives of Kentucky and California, respectively. Mr. Kampschmidt is a Republican in politics
and a member of the Lutheran Church, while Mrs. Mrs. Kampschmidt is a member of
the Christian Church in Stockton.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1328. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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