San
Joaquin County
Biographies
HENRY THOMAS OHM
A prominent citizen and an extensive
grain farmer, Henry Thomas Ohm has a fine farm and residence three miles
northeast of Vernalis, and as a practical farmer and
businessman he has achieved a most desirable degree of success. He was born on the Ohm ranch near Vernalis on December 29, 1881, the only son of Thomas and
Mrs. Rebecca (Riecks) Ohm, natives of Bremen and
Holstein, Germany respectively. The
father passed away July 19, 1886. The mother
still resides upon the old home place, and her sketch also appears in this
work.
Henry Thomas Ohm grew up on the
grain ranch, and received a good education in the New Jerusalem district
school, supplemented by a course in the Adams Cosmopolitan School at San
Francisco and the Polytechnic high school, continuing his course of study for
three years. He then became a clerk in
the office of Bovee, Toy & Sonntag, real estate and insurance brokers of San Francisco, where he
remained for a year and a half; then, at the solicitation of his widowed
mother, he returned to the home ranch, which he managed on shares. From time to time, Mr. Ohm has made an
investment in lands, until he now owns extensive holdings near Vernalis, all devoted to grain raising that yield abundant
crops each season. Mr. Ohm, besides
farming his own land, also operates the ranch belonging to Sheriff W. H. Riecks, a half-brother of our subject, who is a resident of
Stockton. About one year ago, Mr. Ohm
was one of the prime movers in, and brought about the election for, the
foundation of an irrigation district, and is a member of the board of
directors.
The marriage of Mr. Ohm occurred at
Stockton on March 4, 1914, and united him with Miss Lillie Ohm, a daughter of
John Ohm, of a prominent and influential family of San Joaquin County, and they
are the parents of one daughter, Evelyn.
Politically, Mr. Ohm is a Republican and fraternally is affiliated with
the Stockton Elks, No. 218. His entire
life has been spent in the San Joaquin Valley, with the exception of the time
spent in acquiring his education at San Francisco, and his business career has
been imbued with the spirit of enterprise which is so characteristic of the far
west and which has led to its wonderful and rapid development.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
972. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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