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PETER F. LAMBERT
A pioneer vineyardist of the Summer
Home district of San Joaquin County is Peter F. Lambert, who is recognized as
one of the representative citizens of San Joaquin County. His birth occurred near Coblenz, Germany,
September 10, 1854, and until he was twenty-one years old he worked in his
father’s vineyard. The vineyard was in
terraces on steep hillsides and portions of it have been in the possession of
the Lambert family for three generations.
Peter F. Lambert received a fair
education in the public schools of Germany and in 1876 was serving in the
Prussian Army; he fled to Holland, where he boarded the S. S. Maize bound for
New York. Arriving in New York he made
his way to Nebraska, stopping at various points of interest en route; he then
spent three years in the Black Hills of South Dakota, mining, but with no
particular success. His next move was to
Miles City, Montana, where he was employed by the Northern Pacific Construction
Company and became a foreman for the company and remained there for four
years. Gradually he worked his way to
the coast, down through Washington and Oregon to this state, locating first
nears Healdsburg.
The marriage of Mr. Lambert occurred
at Billings, Montana, in 1889, and united him with Miss Annie Bohman. Mrs. Lambert
passed away at Manteca in June, 1909. In
1897 Mr. Lambert decided to try his fortune in the Klondike and he was one of a
party of four to go, remaining there two years when he returned to California
and joined his family at Healdsburg. In
the spring of 1901 he sold his vineyard home at Healdsburg and located at
Manteca, which has since been his home.
The second marriage of Mr. Lambert occurred in 1916, uniting him with
Mrs. Minnie Fisher, who had two children, Albert and August B., by her first
marriage. Mr. Lambert has developed his
home place of thirty acres in the Summer Home district to a vineyard, his
average yield being eight tons to the acre.
In 1879, at Deadwood, South Dakota, he became a United States citizen
and since that time has voted the Republican ticket. In 1917 he became a member of the California
Raisin Growers’ Association, and from 1915 to 1919 served as a director of the
South San Joaquin Irrigation District.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
888. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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