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EMANUEL LOFFELBEIN
A successful vineyardist, whose
well-kept vineyard lies about four miles in an easterly direction from Lodi, is
Emanuel Loffelbein, a native of south Russia who was born on July 12,
1868. His father, Augustus Loffelbein,
was a native of Leipzig, Germany, and when he was two years old was taken by
his parents to south Russia and was reared on a farm. He married Miss Barbara Stadel
and they were the parents of ten children, namely: John, Jacob, Christ, Louisa, Mary, Christina,
Margaret, Katherine, Emanuel and Gottleib.
The father became quite an extensive farmer in his native country and
lived to be seventy-five years old, while the mother passed away at the age of
fifty-five. The schooling of Emanuel
Loffelbein consisted of a grammar school education and he selected for his
trade that of a shoemaker, but only worked one year, when he determined on
coming to the United States, and arriving he went to North Dakota and
homesteaded a quarter-section of land near Pheasanton
where he resided for seven years and then removed to Harvey and for the next
nine years was engaged in a livery and dray business with his brother Gottleib.
In May, 1895 at Pheasanton,
North Dakota, occurred the marriage of Mr. Loffelbein and Miss Margaretta
Schmierer, who was born in the same district as her husband in south Russia,
and who is the daughter of John and Margaretta (Speidel) Schmierer. Her father was a farmer who had also removed
from Germany to south Russia and he had six children: John of Lodi; Jacob of Victor; Margaretta,
Mrs. Loffelbein; Christina, deceased; Magdalena and Selma. John Schmierer lives at Lodi, California, and
is past eighty years of age.
In 1909 Mr. Loffelbein came to
California, settling first at Ukiah, and there purchased a forty-three acre
farm, but lived there only eight months when he sold out and came to Lodi. At first he rented different ranches, which
he farmed. His first purchase was a
place of twenty-one acres on Harney Lane, five acres of which was in vineyard
and the balance in alfalfa. He then
traded this place for his present place of twenty acres, most of which is in
bearing vineyard. Three acres of the
ranch are set to Zinfandel grapes, six acres to Black Prince, nine acres to
Mission, and the remaining two acres are in grounds surrounding the house. Mr. and Mrs. Loffelbein are the parents of
eight children. Gottleib resides in
Victor. He entered the service of his
country in July, 1918 and was sent to Fort McArthur and was in the mechanical
department of the officers training camp.
He was taken ill while at the training camp, was in the hospital a
number of months, and was discharged at Fort McArthur and returned to his home
in Lodi. Samuel S. enlisted in August,
1918 and went to Camp Lewis in the Thirteenth Division as a private. He trained and remained at Camp Lewis until
the Armistice was signed and on February 1, 1919 was discharged at the
Presidio, San Francisco. The other
children are Walter, Elsie, Emil and Herbert; Elsa and Lillian are
deceased. Mr. Loffelbein is a member of
the Evangelical Association Church of Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1615-1616. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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