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HERBERT JUSTIN MANN
Am eminently conscientious and
efficient public accountant who has done much, through his painstaking labors
and successful work, to elevate still further the dignity of that profession in
California, is Herbert Justin Mann, of 222 Yosemite Building, Stockton, in
which city he was born, on September 4, 1890.
His father, Jacob Mann, a native of Germany, when sixteen, made his way
to Australia, then came out to California in the early
sixties, when he was a boy of eighteen, and for almost twenty-five years he was
with the Simpson & Gray Lumber Company.
In died in 1907, an honored member of the Druids. He had married, in Stockton, Miss Bertha Echenberger, a native of Canton Berne, Switzerland, who
came with her parents to Philadelphia when about seven years old, and there
attended school. Later she accompanied
her mother and sister to Stockton. She
died in April, 1921, the mother of four sons, all born in Stockton, and all
still living: William J., Robert E.,
Walter C., and Herbert J.
Herbert J. Mann attended the grammar
schools and Stockton high school, and from the latter institution he was
graduated with the class of ’08. His
first employment was in the shipping department of the Houser-Haynes Harvester
Company, and after awhile he was in the accounting department of the same
company. When the Holt Company absorbed
the concern, Mr. Mann remained with them for eight months, and in 1913 he
entered the employ of the Frank A. Guernsey Grain Company, where, at the end of
two years, he became one of the partners and was made secretary and
treasurer. On June 25, 1921, he severed
his connection with that important house and struck out for himself, and since
then he has built up a large patronage.
He not only does auditing and installation of accounting systems, but,
as a result of his seven years with the Guernsey Company, when he made many
friends among the farmer-folk, he has successfully opened up a new branch, in
taking charge of the account books of ranchers.
He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce.
At Stockton, in 1914, Mr. Mann was
married to Miss Ruth Page, a native of Lodi; and their union has been blessed
with three children: Justin Page, Susan
Ruth, and Margery Beryl. Mr. Mann is a
charter member of the Stockton Sciots, and he belongs to Stockton Parlor No. 7,
N. S. G. W.; Stockton Lodge No. 218, B. P. O. E.; San Joaquin Lodge No. 19, F
& A. M.; Stockton Chapter No. 28, R. A. M., and to the local R. & S. M.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1239-1240. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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