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CHARLES E. KELLY
Among the enterprising stock and
dairy farmers of the Ripon District of San Joaquin County is Charles E. Kelly,
who has made a success of his undertaking which places him among the
substantial citizens of his locality.
His ranch of 200 acres, which he has developed from a stubble field, is
located twelve miles south of Stockton on the French Camp Road. A native son, he was born in Gonzales,
December 10, 1888, a son of Martin P. Kelly, an old-time resident of Monterey
County. Charles E. Kelly received a good
education in the public schools of San Jose and finished with a business course
in Heald’s Business College of that city.
In 1908 he took a trip through the East which consumed about eighteen
months, and on returning to this state located in San Francisco, where he was
in the employ of the Union Hardware Company for a year and a half. He then went to Humboldt County, where he
entered the employ of the Pacific Lumber Mills as a logger, and within a year’s
time he was advanced to tallyman.
Returning to his native county of
Monterey, he became a range rider on his father’s ranch for one year; then
became a clerk for the Western Meat Packers at San Francisco, and at the end of
two years, in 1912, he returned to the home ranch, which he farmed on shares
for one year. He next leased land from
the David Jacks estate near Soledad, and ran a dairy, selling his product to
the Alpine Condensed Milk Company at Gonzales, and during the three years he
was there he raised and sold several herds of Durham cattle; Mr. Kelly then
purchased a ranch near Soledad, where he maintained a dairy until 1917, when he
sold his property to the David Jacks estate and removed to San Joaquin
County. Locating twelve miles south of
Stockton on the French Camp Road, he purchased 200 acres which he has developed
into a modern dairy ranch; he has planted twenty acres of vineyard and sixty
acres are seeded to alfalfa.
The marriage of Mr. Kelly on June
29, 1920, united him with Miss Hattie Helen Ober, a daughter of John Ober, a
pioneer of Soledad. Miss Ober was reared
and educated in Monterey County and is a graduate of the Salinas high school,
class of 1914. Besides his home place,
which requires a great deal of attention, Mr. Kelly is interested in
sheep-raising in San Benito County.
Fraternally he is a member of the Stockton Lodge No. 218, B. P. O. E. Mr. Kelly is progressive in all things and by
practical experience and self-reliance in gaining a most creditable success.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1629. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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