San Joaquin County
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ISAAC KRIEGER
The owner and proprietor of a fine,
modern garage at Lodi, Isaac G. Krieger has the agency for the Ford and Lincoln
automobiles for northern San Joaquin County.
He is a progressive, enterprising and thoroughly up-to-date man of
affairs, especially in his chosen line.
He was born in Hastings, Nebraska, March 11, 1883, a son of George and
Elizabeth (Miller) Krieger. The father
was a stock raiser on a large scale.
When Isaac was a small boy the family removed to Kansas, where he
attended grammar and high schools and later the Southern Normal College in
Oklahoma. Isaac G. and a sister,
Rachael, were the only children of this worthy couple. Both parents reside near Lodi at the present time. The family removed to Hitchcock, Oklahoma,
when Isaac G. was a young man, and during the eighteen years of his residence
there he became a prominent and highly esteemed citizen, serving as mayor of
the city, director of the school board, and during the World War was chairman
of the County Council of Defense. For
eleven years, Mr. Krieger conducted a grain, insurance and mercantile business;
then he went into the automobile business, owning and operating stores in four
different places in Oklahoma, one at Fairview, one at Watonga, one at Hitchcock
and one at Okeene.
The marriage of Mr. Krieger occurred
at Hitchcock, Oklahoma, on February 8, 1907, and united him with Miss Matilda Weitz, a native of that city, a daughter of G. B. Weitz, a machinist by trade who is now deceased. Her mother is still living. There are six children in the family: Reuben, Manuel, Otto, Charles T., Andrew and
Matilda, Mrs. Krieger. Mr. and Mrs.
Krieger are the parents of three children, Woodrow, Isaac Glen, Jr., and Thelma;
the family resides on South Cherokee Street, Lodi. In 1919 Mr. Krieger removed with his family
to Glendale, California where he purchased a sixty-acre vineyard, but later
sold it and removed to Lodi, where he soon established an agency for the
Maxwell, Chalmers and Overland automobiles; then he purchased the automobile
business of Mr. Seebe, which he has converted into a
modern automobile house, having a floor space of 90 x 150 feet for the display
of Ford and Lincoln automobiles, and his business is steadily assuming very
satisfactory proportions. He is a
Republican and a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1537-1538. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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