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RUSSELL B. KINCAID
A widely known businessman of Ripon,
Russell B. Kincaid is also a native of this vicinity and the popular and
successful proprietor of the Ripon Meat Company. He was born on the Kincaid ranch near Ripon,
December 18, 1881, the youngest son of the Hon. F. H. Kincaid, a native of
Iowa, a Civil War veteran, and in early days a member of the California
Legislature. Russell B. Kincaid was
reared on the ranch and attended the River district school until he was fifteen
years of age; then he worked on the home place until he was twenty-one, when he
went to Merced to learn the carpenter’s trade, which occupied him for two
years. In 1904, in partnership with Mr.
Powell of Escalon, he bought the meat department of Yaple
& Company. After four months the
partnership was dissolved and Mr. Kincaid became sole owner and has since
conducted the business on conservative business lines. Four years ago he took as his partner A. E.
Van Slyck. The
company maintains a slaughterhouse one and a half miles southwest of Ripon, on
the Stanislaus River, which has been conducted on strictly sanitary lines for
the past fourteen years. The town shop
is a model meat market in every particular and the company enjoys a growing
business, catering to the trade throughout south San Joaquin County.
The marriage of Mr. Kincaid occurred
at Stockton, which united him with Miss Clara Garrison, a daughter of John and
Eliza (Frederick) Garrison, pioneers of Ripon.
Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid: Estella, Inez, Russell B. Jr., William and
Evelyn. Mr. Kincaid is a member of the
Ripon Merchants’ Association and Woodmen of America and Mt. Horeb Lodge, I. O.
O. F. He owns a fine residence in Ripon
and other valuable real estate. An
excellent businessman, he has gained for himself a handsome competence which
places him among the substantial residents of the community.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1474. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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