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OTTO NEUBAUER
A well known citizen and the owner
of a productive ten-acre vineyard on Harney Lane, in the Lodi section, is Otto
Neubauer, and his place is visible evidence of his enterprise and thrift. He was born in Pommern, Germany, on January
19, 1886, a son of William and Henrietta (Limberg) Neubauer, farmers in their
native land. They were the parents of
seven children; Otto, the subject of this sketch, being the third in order of
birth.
Otto attended the excellent schools
of his native land and learned the trade of blacksmith there; and on July 7,
1888, landed on American soil and went direct to Faribault, Minnesota, where he
found employment with Henry Reinege for one year on his farm. He then moved to Superior, Wisconsin, and
worked as blacksmith in the timber camps for H. M. Stocking; later he was
lumberjack for seven years; then became a cook in the camps near Superior and
finally opened a restaurant there, but sold out and went back to Faribault,
where he conducted a hotel and restaurant for nearly three years, when he
returned to Superior and ran a restaurant for one year. He then sold his restaurant in Superior and
came to California and opened a restaurant at Lodi, which he continued for four
and a half years, when he sold out and moved on a thirty-acre ranch just off of
Cherokee Lane, two and one- half miles southeast of Lodi, which he had
purchased upon coming here. This place
was a part of the old Ferdun ranch and was devoted to grapes, which he set out,
and to alfalfa growing. He lived on this
place for eleven years and then sold it and purchased the ranch of ten acres on
Harney Lane where he now resides. He built
a new, modern house and installed a pumping plant for irrigation with a four-inch
pump driven by a ten horse-power motor.
The marriage of Mr. Neubauer
occurred at Morristown, Minnesota, on June 26, 1899, and united him with Miss
Katie Weber, a daughter of Jacob Weber, a farmer of Morristown. Mrs. Neubauer was reared and educated in
Morristown. Mr. and Mrs. Neubauer have
had four children: Otto and Walter died
in infancy in Wisconsin; Mildred died in her 13th year; Harold died
at four years. He is a Republican in
politics and he and his wife are members of the German Lutheran Church of Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1621-1622. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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