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HENRY LINDEMANN, JR.
For the past nine years Henry
Lindemann, Jr., has been actively and prominently identified with the section
of San Joaquin County known at Bethany, owning extensive holds in this rich and
productive territory. A native of Benton
County, Iowa, he was born near Blairstown on April 10, 1878, and when he was
four years old his parents removed to Plymouth County, Iowa, locating at
Remsen, where Henry received his preliminary education and was graduated from
the Remsen high school with the class of ’01; he then entered the Highland Park
University, Des Moines, for a short business course; then in 1904 he entered
the College of LeMars. Finishing his education, he took a position
as clerk in a merchandise store in Remsen, Iowa, which covered a period of
seven years.
At Remsen, Iowa, in 1906, Mr.
Lindemann was married to Miss Bertha A. Ohlendorf, a
native of Remsen, Iowa, where she was reared and schooled, graduating from the
high school in 1904. She is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ohlendorf, residents of Remsen. She became identified with the educational
profession as a teacher in Plymouth County, Iowa, and taught from the time of
her graduation from the high school until she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Lindemann are the parents of
five children: Lafe
W.; Lyle H.; June K.; Raymond; and Evelyn.
Mr. Lindemann’s parents, Detlef
and Florena (Haupt) Lindemann, both natives of Holstein, Germany, also reside
in Remsen, Iowa. Mr. Lindemann was
preceded to California in 1907 by an uncle, Henry Lindemann, a wealthy rancher
of Alameda County, California.
During 1912 Mr. Lindemann purchased
a tract of 708 acres near Bethany without having seen it, and the following
year removed his family from the east and located upon it, arriving in
February, 1913; these lands were formerly owned by Shattuck & Edinger, general engineers and contractors of canals and roads
throughout California. The land was not
in condition to please the eye of a newcomer, especially one who was
unacquainted with the difficulties to be encountered in this arid country
before the development of irrigating systems, but now the splendid system of
improvements and developments show the care and attention, as well as energetic
ability of Mr. Lindemann. He has
installed two powerful Byron-Jackson centrifugal pumps, run by electric power,
which force the water to the highest point on his land, distributing it by
gravity flow through canals and over the land, which, with the exception of
forty acres, has been planted to alfalfa, from which wonderful results are
obtained, five cuttings in one season being the maximum of production. In 1919 Mr. Lindemann became a member of the
Federation of American Farmers and is a strong advocate of the Marshall plan
for irrigating 5,000,000 acres of California arid lands. In politics he is a Democrat. He is enthusiastic over farming, and believes
that the Bethany district, with its natural resources, is destined to attract
settlers from all parts of the country.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1383-1384. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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