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HENRY A. LINNE
An eminent citizen who has long been
a prominent rancher, and who is known far and wide as an enthusiastic advocate
of irrigation, is Henry A. Linne, who was born in San Francisco on November 3, 1876,
and now resides about two miles east of Tracy on the Lincoln Highway. He came to San Joaquin County in 1885, and
located on the Fink rancho near Bethany, having been preceded to this place by
his elder brother, Adolph H. Linne. He
worked out for two years at Bethany, and it was after that that he removed to
the Fink rancho, where he followed farm labor until 1899. The year 1898 the two brothers put up their
first crop; and having experienced a dry year, they lost heavily. Year after year they kept going, however, and
by intelligent industry and unimpeachable integrity, they won success. They together acquired lands and have
extensive holdings which are farmed on a co-partnership basis.
Henry A. Linne has thirty-five acres
of well-irrigated alfalfa, and as a member of the Tracy Local, he belongs to
the Farm Bureau. He heartily supports
every movement likely to hasten the development and progress of the community,
and he is a Republican in matters of national political import.
At Stockton in 1909, Mr. Linne was
married to Miss Margaret Austin, the daughter of the well-known pioneer, Daniel
Austin, a sturdy farmer who hailed from New York. He settled for awhile, in his first move
westward, in Michigan, and then, in 1850 at the time of the continued gold
excitement, he accompanied a party bound across the plains to California. He became prominent in the southern mines,
and he owned a freighting business operating out from, and on the return to
Copperopolis, in Calaveras County. He
married Mary E. Downing, who was born in Illinois, and had come west by way of
the Isthmus of Panama in 1860. Their
family was reared at Farmington; and two of the three children have
survived. Charles W. served as a member
of the State Legislature from 1896 up to the time of his death on February 11,
1898; Kate became Mrs. Mills of Stockton; and Margaret, Mrs. H. A. Linne, is a
graduate of the Oakdale district school and also York’s Normal School at
Stockton. She followed her profession as
teacher for nine years, and having married, now has one child, Ruth Irene, a
pupil of the grammar school at Tracy.
Mr. and Mrs. Linne are members of the Native Sons of the Golden West and
the Native Daughters of the Golden West.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1384. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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