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ABRAHAM NASMAN
Since 1907 Abraham Nasman has been
identified with agriculture in San Joaquin County, having owned an orchard and
vineyard previous to the purchase of his present well-cultivated vineyard
located on the corner of Central Avenue and Kettleman Lane. He was born in Harnosand,
Sweden, November 11, 1862 a son of Jonas and Anna Nasman. Jonas Nasman engaged in farming in his
younger days and later in life became a carpenter. There were twelve children in the family,
seven of whom grew up: Carrie, Peter,
Jonas (died in South America of yellow fever), Erick (died in Chicago),
Abraham, the subject of this sketch; Isaac (died in Sweden), and Jacob. The father lived to be seventy-two years old,
the mother died when Abraham was a lad of five years. When nine years of age he became errand boy
for a tailor, and remained in his native country until 1888 when, in company
with his brother Erick, he came to the United States and spent the next two
years working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after which the brothers went to
Chicago and Abraham found work in the iron works and then learned the carpenter
trade and was employed in Chicago for fourteen years.
In the fall of 1893, in Chicago Mr.
Nasman was first married to Miss Lena Roberg, also a
native of Sweden. She passed away in
Chicago in 1895, leaving one daughter, Florence, Mrs. Schulte, residing in
Lodi. In 1899 Mr. Nasman was married to
Miss Augusta Lundaberg, born in Falun,
Sweden, who came to Chicago in 1884, and for many years was a nurse at the
Battle Creek, Michigan, Sanitarium. For
a number of years Mr. Nasman traveled for John S. Metcalf & Company of
Chicago. He was a foreman in the
installation of grain elevator machinery for this company and spent three years
on one job at Portland, Maine; he was also at Newport News, Virginia, and twice
was sent to Montreal, Canada. In 1904 he
came to San Francisco, California, and engaged in carpenter work and was there
at the time of the great earthquake and fire.
In 1907 the family removed to San Joaquin County, where he bought an
eight-acre orchard three-quarters of a mile west of Woodbridge on the New Hope
Road, and here they spent nine years, when he sold out and in 1916 purchased a
ranch of ten acres on the Lincoln Highway three miles southwest of Lodi; this
latter ranch was in vineyard and in 1920 Mr. Nasman sold it. He then purchase 2.08 acres set to vineyard
and trees on the corner of Central Avenue and Kettleman Lane, where he also
raises fine chickens. Mr. Nasman is a
Republican in politics and with Mrs. Nasman is a member of the Seventh Day
Adventist Church. In 1913 Mr. and Mrs.
Nasman adopted an eighty-year-old boy, Fritz.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1611-1612. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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