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FREDERICK G. MENKING
For almost his entire lifetime,
Frederick G. Menking has been a resident of San Joaquin County, for he was
about three months old when his parents brought him to California. He was born at Hoboken, New Jersey, May 23,
1868, and in the same year his parents removed to Stockton, California, coming
via the Isthmus of Panama on the S. S. “Golden State” to Aspinwall, then across
the Isthmus on mule back, and there they took passage to San Francisco on the
S. S. “Arrow.” The father purchased
property from Captain Weber on Pilgrim Street and Miner Slough, Stockton, where
he erected a house; here he engaged in the lumber and freighting business. He married Miss Katherine Tons, a native of
Germany and a sister of John Tons, and she passed away in 1917, while the
father died in San Francisco in 1921.
Frederick G. Menking received a
fairly good education in the public schools of Stockton and when a very small
boy learned to handle horses successfully.
Thereby an intense love for this four-footed animal was created and
throughout his lifetime he has been known as an authority on horses. In the fall of 1882 he became a driver for
the Moore & Smith yards, and during all the years he followed teaming he has
worked for but three firms. Of recent
years he was employed by the city of Stockton.
Two years ago he retired to take up farming on account of poor health,
and purchased fourteen acres of the L. U. Shippee
homestead near French Camp. By hard work
and a determination to succeed, he has made of his ranch a fine and productive
fruit and alfalfa farm; here he devotes much of his time to raising fine
horses, for which he is particularly well fitted.
The marriage of Mr. Menking united
him with Miss Sadie Ray, a daughter of David Ray, prominent building contractor
of Stockton; and they are the parents of two children: Ada and Edna.
In fraternal circles he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the W. O. W.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
967. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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