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PAUL R. MINDACH
Although he is of German birth and
parentage, Paul R. Mindach is to all intents and purposes an American-born
citizen taking a keen interest in everything pertaining to the locality he has selected
for his permanent home. He was born
about twenty miles from Berlin, Germany, on September 20, 1864 a son of
Wilhelmina Mindach. His father was a
shoemaker by trade in his native country.
There are two sons in the family, Paul R., our subject, and Felix.
Paul R. Mindach received a very
thorough grammar school education in his native land and worked for wages until
he was twenty-three years old, when he left for America. The first year after his arrival in the
United States he worked in Rochester, New York; then came to California,
settling at Red Bluff, Tehama County, and for the following three years worked
for wages; he then purchased 200 acres of grain land and farmed it for some
twenty years when he sold out and came to San Joaquin County, January 1, 1913
locating on his present ranch about one and a half miles from Lockeford,
containing twenty acres, thirteen acres in full-bearing vineyard and
orchard. Mr. Mindach has installed a
good irrigation plant on his ranch.
The marriage of Mr. Mindach in San
Francisco on September 19, 1899 united him with Miss Mary Raible, a native of
Wittenberg, Germany. Mrs. Mindach came
to California about the same year that her husband did and settled in San
Francisco. They are the parents of four
children: Gertrude, Martha, Oscar and
Walter, all residing at home. In
politics Mr. Mindach is a Democrat, and fraternally is a member of the Woodmen
of the World, joining at Corning, but demitted to the Lodi lodge. While busy in the cultivation and care of his
vineyard, Mr. Mindach looks to the welfare of his community and is a supporter
of all movements that have for their goal the prosperity and development of the
locality.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1610. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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