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HARRIS BRENNER MUNGER
The owner and proprietor of the meat
market at Lockeford, Harris B. Munger is well known as one of the capable men
in the business in this part of the county.
He thoroughly understands all branches of the business, judging cattle
for market purposes, butchering, and manufacturing by-products. He was born in Miami County, Ohio, on March
9, 1881 the son of Timothy and Charlotte (Brenner) Munger. Timothy Munger was a nurseryman, fruit grower
and farmer in Ohio until 1890, when he brought his family to California,
arriving on New Year’s Day and locating at Malaga, Fresno County, where he
purchased a twenty-acre vineyard which he operated for twelve years; he then
leased a ranch for two years at Fowler, California; later he went to San Luis
Obispo County and farmed near Arroyo Grande.
The father lived to be seventy years of age and the mother sixty years.
Harris B. Munger was educated in the
schools of Miami County, Ohio, and California.
At the age of eighteen he began to make his own way in the world, first
working in a warehouse in Santa Barbara; then worked for a time as baggage man
for the P. C. R. R. at San Luis Obispo; next we find him in Watsonville,
California, learning the blacksmith trade, but after two years he went to
Fortuna, Humboldt County, and during the next two years learned the butcher
business. Returning to San Luis Obispo
County, he opened a butcher shop in a prospective oil field, but after three
years he discontinued operations. He
then went to Salida, Stanislaus County, and engaged in the butcher business for
three years; then to Hanford for one year.
His next venture was at Manteca, where he engaged in farming for two
years, but his success was only nominal and in 1917, hearing of an opening at
Lockeford, he immediately went there and purchased a partnership with Mr. Jett,
where he has since remained. Mr. Munger
and his partner purchased a twenty-acre tract about two miles south of
Lockeford on which they built a slaughter-house and where they also keep their
stock.
Mr. Munger’s
marriage occurred in Modesto on August 17, 1913 and united him with Miss
Frances McLaughlin, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, a daughter of William D.
and May McLaughlin. Mr. McLaughlin was a
contract and builder in Kansas City and after coming to California engaged in
house-moving and general contracting in Modesto, California. Mrs. Munger received her education in the
grammar and high schools of Kansas City.
They are the parents of one son, Harris B., Jr. In politics Mr. Munger is a Republican, and
fraternally is a member and past grand of the Odd Fellows of Lockeford; and at
the present time he is junior warden of the Lodi Encampment.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1618. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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