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HARRY H. Mc COMB
A vineyardist who has been
successful in his agricultural operations is Harry H. McComb, the owner of a thirty-acre
vineyard four and one-half miles northeast of Lodi and three-quarters of a mile
east of Dougherty Station. He was born
in Jackson County, Iowa, on January 10, 1870, a son of Joseph and Martha
(Livingston) McComb, both natives of Pennsylvania, from which state they
removed to Iowa, and later to Nebraska, when they homesteaded a quarter-section
of land. There were seven children in
the family, as follows: William F.,
Flora B., Armenta D., Harry H., Fannie H., and two
other children, who died in infancy.
Harry H. McComb received his
education in the country schools of Nebraska.
His agricultural training was also received in that state, on his
father’s farm. On March 1, 1892, he came
to California and settled near Dos Palos, San Joaquin County, but had remained
there only a short time when he went to San Benito County, where he worked on a
ranch for the next eleven years. Then he
removed to San Joaquin County, where he bought a five-acre peach and alfalfa
ranch directly west of Lodi, on which he resided for two years, and then sold
out and removed, to Lodi. One year later
he purchased twenty acres east of Dougherty Station. He continued to reside in Lodi until twelve
years ago, and then removed to his ranch, and has since made his home
there. In 1918 he purchased a ten-acre
peach orchard lying east of his vineyard, on which he has installed a four-inch
irrigation pump with a ten-horsepower motor, which is adequate for the
irrigation of this thirty-acre tract.
The marriage of Mr. McComb occurred
in San Francisco on April 16, 1903, and united him with Miss Julia Rivers, born
in Hollister, a daughter of William and Katherine Rivers. Her father engaged in the stock business for
many years, and then engaged in the teaming business in San Francisco. Mrs. McComb passed away in 1907. Fraternally, Mr. McComb is a member of the
Modern Woodmen and the Improved Order of Red Men, of Lodi.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1040. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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