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KARL NEUHARTH
Nineteen years ago, Karl Neuharth
made his first trip to California and while here visited the Lodi section of
San Joaquin County for one year. He then
returned to his home in South Dakota and farmed there for two years, but the
lure of the Golden State, with her mild winter climate, wonderful fruits and
vegetables proved too much for him, so in 1907 he came back to make San Joaquin
County his permanent home. He was born
near Menno, South Dakota, on March 2, 1876 a son of Phillip and Katherine
(Fink) Neuharth, and is the third-born of thirteen children: Jacob; Elizabeth, Mrs. George Hauck; Karl,
our subject; Barbara, Mrs. Fred Gutmiller; Katherine,
Mrs. Emanuel Handel, of Lodi; Christian; Amelia, Mr. John Handel; Louisa, Mrs.
W. Meher; Christina, Mrs. David Schorzman;
Rosina, Mrs. George Serr; Bertha, Mrs. A. New; Phillip; and Pauline, Mrs. Gus Maas, of Lodi. The father was a farmer in his native country
of south Russia and on arriving in America settled at Menno, South Dakota,
where he filed a homestead and timber claim for a half-section of land. The parents still reside at Menno, South
Dakota.
Karl Neuharth received a grammar
school education in South Dakota and remained at home with his parents until he
was twenty-seven years old, when he bought a quarter-section of land. This land, however, proved to be poor soil
and in 1903 Mr. Neuharth sold it and came to California, where he remained for
one year when he went back to South Dakota and engaged in farming for the next
two years. In 1907 he returned to
California to make this his permanent home and bought forty acres of land on
Kettleman Lane; later he traded this for a ten-acre vineyard two miles east of
Lodi on the Lockeford Road.
The marriage of Mr. Neuharth
occurred at Grafton, Nebraska, on November 14, 1915 and united him with Miss
Rosina Eckerman, a native of that state and a
daughter of Peter and Margaret Eckerman, the parents
of twelve children: Peter, Jacob, Henry,
John, Fred, Andrew, Frederick, Regina, Mrs. John Schmidt, of Lodi; Caroline,
Emma, Mrs. Rosina Neuharth and Christina.
Mrs. Neuharth received her education in the grammar school of Grafton,
Nebraska. Her mother passed away in
1904, but her father is still living.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Neuharth removed to their ten-acre
ranch, where Mr. Neuharth had built a residence, and remained there for three
years, when he sold it and purchased a thirty-acre ranch on Almond Avenue, a
mile south of Lodi. On this, eighteen
acres is in vineyard and the balance in an orchard of cherries, apricots and
several acres of alfalfa. In the fall of
1921, in partnership with his brother-in-law, E. Handel, Mr. Neuharth bought a
thirty-five acre vineyard on the Lockeford-Lodi Road two miles east of Lodi. Mr. and Mrs. Neuharth are the parents of four
children: Vera, Reuben, Emma and Ella;
and they are members of the German Reformed Church of Lodi. In politics Mr. Neuharth is a Republican.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1620-1621. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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