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HENRY F. MERRILL
Among the vineyardists who is devoting
his energies to this branch of agriculture is Henry F. Merrill, who resides on
a ten-acre vineyard southeast of Lodi.
He was born in Campo Seco, Calaveras County,
California, on May 13, 1887, and is a typical western man, possessing the
energy, determination, and enterprise which have been the dominant factors in
the upbuilding of the Pacific coast country. He is the son of Douglass and Anna Virginia
(Whitaker) Merrill, natives of New York and California, respectively. The father came to California in an early day
and was a building contractor in Lodi and the mother came to California with
her parents in 1861 and also settled in San Joaquin County. They had four children: Mamie Adaline, Mrs.
C. C. Wright; Nellie, Mrs. Howard Gillespie; Henry F., and Joseph F.
Henry F. Merrill attended grammar
school at Campo Seco, Lodi, Lockeford
and Live Oak, and in November of 1909 was married at Stockton to Miss Emma
Vollbrecht, a daughter of William and Anna Vollbrecht, her father a native of
Germany who came to America with his parents when three years old. Mrs. Vollbrecht is one of twelve children. Her father is deceased, but her mother still
lives in Iowa. Mr. Merrill is a lather by trade and was engaged throughout San Joaquin
County until November, 1920, when he came to the Lodi section and purchased his
vineyard on which he has since resided.
The ranch is irrigated by a four-inch pump which supplies ample
water. Mr. and Mrs. Merrill are the
parents of three children: Emily,
Bernice and Lowell, and in politics he is a Democrat.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1543. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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