San
Joaquin County
Biographies
HENRY B. MUNSON
A prosperous farmer and stockman who
resides in the vicinity of French Camp is Henry B. Munson and he has been
eminently successful as regards material affairs, likewise is he prominent and
of broad spirit concerning the larger community affairs and the questions and
interests of the world about him. He is
classed as one of the representative men of San Joaquin County, and has been
tested and proved a man of capability and worth in various relations of a busy
life. He was born on the old Laudenbach ranch near Ripon, October 6, 1876, a son of A.
B. Munson, a native of Maine, who came to California via Cape Horn on a small
sailing vessel in 1850. He is now living
retired at his home, 628 North Sierra Nevada Street, Stockton.
Henry B. Munson was reared on his
father’s farm and began his education in the Castle and Barefield
schools. In 1884 his parents removed to
Turlock, where they conducted the Fountain Hotel for one year. After two years in Turlock, Mr. Munson
returned to the ranch on the French Camp Road near French Camp, where he
remained until 1894, when he moved to Stockton and became associated with his
father in contract construction of roads and pavements in Stockton. While the father was the head of the
business, yet our subject took actual charge as construction foreman when but
nineteen years of age. In 1905, A. B.
Munson obtained the Government contract to building the retaining wall on the
north side of the Yuba River, from Deguerra Point to
Marysville, which work was successfully completed in 1907. He also had charge of the construction of the
Orland Irrigation project from 1907 to 1909.
The contract for the construction of the retaining wall on the Yuba
River required three years to complete and is a permanent example of the kind
of work done by this firm for the U. S. Government; also many of the
subdivisions of Stockton have been improved with pavements and street work done
by this company. The firm discontinued
business in 1915.
The marriage of Mr. Munson, which
occurred in December, 1910, united him with Miss Mabel B. Du Bois, who was born
near Hurley, New York, and came to California in the early part of 1910. She is the daughter of Peter and Lillian
(North) Du Bois, both natives of New York, and they are now residing in Kingston, New York. Mr.
and Mrs. Munson have two children, Marian D. and Harold David. For the past twenty years Mr. Munson has been
a member of the Odd Fellows and also of the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics. In politics he is a
Republican and is known as a citizen of high principles. Mr. Munson is now located at French Camp,
where he is engaged in buying and selling livestock throughout San Joaquin
County.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1518-1519. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County Biographies
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County Genealogy
Databases