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ERNEST M. McKINDLEY
Among the well-known fruit
culturists of San Joaquin County is Ernest M. McKindley, whose career in that
industry has been markedly successful.
He was born at Sutter Creek, California, January 7, 1884, a son of
Josiah McKindley and his wife, Emma A. (Mattice) McKindley, natives of Missouri and Illinois,
respectively. Josiah McKindley was a
babe in arms when his parents crossed the plains to California in 1853. The story of his life may be found in this
history.
Ernest McKindley went to school at
the Lee district school of Sacramento County, and his earliest recollections
are those of helping with the farm work on his father’s farm. In 1901 his father settled on his present
place, and Ernest has assisted in cultivating, planting and caring for the
orchards and vineyards since his youth.
In 1919 he purchased a thirty-acre ranch on the Terminus Road, fifteen
acres of which he set to vineyard, and further improved it, and in January of
1922 sold it at a fair profit. For the
past six years he has had charge of the 300-acre stock ranch owned by his
father on the Mokelumne River, but makes his home on Poplar Street in Lodi.
On Christmas Day, 1909, Mr.
McKindley was married to Miss May Tenney, a native daughter of California, born
in Monterey County, but educated in the schools of Acampo. She is the daughter of John and Mary Tenney
and the oldest of a family of four children, the others being Jose, Edith and Lester. John Tenney was the proprietor of a hotel in
Acampo, and was in that business at the time of his death in 1913. Mrs. Tenney resides at the present time in
Healdsburg. Mr. and Mrs. McKindley are
the parents of seven children: Mahlon, Irma, Edna, Ruth, Ray, Cecil and John. In politics Mr. McKindley is a Democrat, and
fraternally he is affiliated with the Lodi Parlor, N. S. G. W.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
932. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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