San Joaquin County
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FREEMAN J.
MATTICE
Among those interested in
agriculture and stockraising in San Joaquin County, Freeman J. Mattice resides on his thirty-acre ranch,
five miles southwest of Lodi. He was
born at Volcano, Amador County, California, March 27, 1866, a son of Simon
Peter and Agnes (Stockton) Mattice. The
father was born in Cornwall, Canada, and first came to California in 1852
across the plains and mined in Amador County for four years. He returned to his Canadian home and was
married to Miss Agnes Stockton, returning with his wife to California the same
year via Panama. He mined one year at
Placerville, then removed to Volcano, where he mined with moderate
success. Mr. and Mrs. Mattice were the
parents of nine children: Emma is Mrs.
Joe McKindley at Acampo; William, George, and Charles
are deceased; Arthur; Freeman J. of this sketch; Mrs. Leona Wilson, deceased;
Chester R. of Acampo; and Edward of Lodi.
The father passed away at Volcano at the age of seventy-two; and in 1887
the mother with some of her children moved to Florin, California, then farmed
on the Consumnes; then in 1896 she came to San
Joaquin County and lived here until her death, passing away at Acampo at the
age of eighty-three.
Freeman J. Mattice received his
education in the grammar schools of Volcano and since he was twenty years old
has made his own way. He first worked as
a ranch hand, then leased a farm in Sacramento County
in the Lee School District near Florin, which he ran for four years when he
located on the Consumnes River; then in 1900 moved to
Sheldon and in 1908 removed to Clements, where for ten years he was in charge
of the Irvin ranch.
The marriage of Mr. Mattice in
Amador County occurred on June 20, 1893, which united him with Miss Lilly May
Clark, a native of Nebraska, daughter of B. A. and Margaret Clark. She is one of a family of fourteen and when
she was sixteen years old came with her
parents to California and settled in Amador County, where her father engaged in
farming. Mr. and Mrs. Mattice are the
parents of six children: George died at
the age of twenty-five; Gladys is Mrs. Oren Nevins, and the mother of three
children, Robert, Ralph and Naomi; Willis makes his home with his parents;
Harvey lives near Lodi; Margaret and Vernon are at home. In 1918 Mr. Mattice removed to the Henderson School
District of San Joaquin County, where he had bought thirty acres in 1917, which
is devoted to raising alfalfa and he also has a small dairy. Mr. Mattice served on the Sheldon school
board, and is a member of Clements Lodge No. 355, I. O. O. F. at Clements, of
which he is a past grand. Mr. and Mrs.
Mattice both belong to the Rebekahs at Clements, in which Mrs. Mattice is a
past noble grand.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1542-1543. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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