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JOHN KIRSCHENMANN
Among the additions to the ranks of
the agriculturists of San Joaquin County is John Kirschenmann,
who resides on his 160-acre ranch, four miles southwest of Lodi. He was born in Yankton County, South Dakota,
August 24, 1875, a son of Jacob and Eva (Bender) Kirschenmann,
both natives of southern Russia who settled in South Dakota in 1873. Jacob Kirschenmann
acquired 480 acres under the homestead, timber claim and pre-emption acts and
besides this he also purchased additional farm land. The mother died in young womanhood, leaving
the husband and father with five children:
Ludwig resides at Shafter, California; Christina, Mrs. George Schaffer,
is deceased; Jacob resides at Yankton, South Dakota; John, the subject of this
sketch; Eva, Mrs. Nuss, resides in South Dakota. Subsequently the father married again and
reared ten children by his second wife:
Christian, Karl, Magdaline, Theopold, Edward, Emma, Eugene, Emil, Manuel, and Benjamin.
John received a grammar school
education in the district schools of his native county and grew up on his
father’s farm, and there received a practical knowledge of agriculture. At the age of twenty-two he began farming for
himself and soon afterward, in November, 1897, married to Miss Christina
Bender, a daughter of Phillip Bender, who was also a farmer in South
Dakota. Mr. Kirschenmann
purchased 160 acres in South Dakota, where the family lived until 1904, when he
sold his property and came to California and settled on his present ranch of
160 acres. This ranch is situated on the
Stockton Highway some four miles southwest of Lodi, on which there is a
producing vineyard of twelve acres and the balance is used for grain and
pasture. He also bought eighteen and
one-half acres opposite his home ranch and thirty acres near Hawes Station and
eighteen and one-half acres in vines on Cherokee Lane, near Lodi. Mr. and Mrs. Kirschenmann
are the parents of seven children:
Henry, Theodore, Pauline, Lydia, Ella, Arthur and Edwin; and the family
are members of the German Reformed Church of Lodi. During Mr. Kirschenmann’s
residence in South Dakota he served as a school trustee of his district and
also as a trustee in his church. He is a
Republican in politics.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1630-1631. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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