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CHARLES E. PERRYMAN
A native son who has great faith in the
fruit industry and agricultural development of San Joaquin County is Charles E.
Perryman, who is now engaged in horticulture and viticulture in San Joaquin
County and is aiding in making this great valley one of the most prosperous
farming districts in the State of California.
He was born at Linden, California, September 19, 1876, a son of John and
Nancy F. (Potter) Perryman, natives of Ohio and Missouri, respectively, old
settlers of San Joaquin County, where the father engaged in farming and stock
raising. There were three children in
the family: Laura, who resides at home;
Charles, our subject, and Walter John.
The father met a violent death, being kicked by a horse at the age of
thirty-five years, while the mother resides in Stockton at the present time, aged seventy-two years.
When Charles E. was seven years old,
the family moved to Stockton and his early education was received in the
grammar and high schools of that city; later he attended York College. He followed the mercantile business until he
became owner and editor of the Lodi Herald for five years. Next he was the proprietor of a wholesale and
retail cigar and tobacco store in Lodi.
Afterwards he became a traveling salesman for a Louisville, Kentucky,
distillery, his territory being the State of California. In 1917 he bought a fifteen-acre ranch about
one and three-quarters miles west of Woodbridge on the Thornton Road. Eight and one-half acres is in vineyard and
the balance in orchard, and the irrigating is done by a four-inch pump driven
by a seven horsepower motor.
Mr. Perryman’s first marriage in
Lodi united him with Miss Eva Dougherty, a native of San Joaquin County,
daughter of John and Jennie Dougherty, and they were the parents of one
daughter, Dorothy Lucile, attending Mills College at Oakland. The union proved unhappy and they were
divorced. On June 3, 1913, occurred the
second marriage of Mr. Perryman, uniting him with Miss Nellie Helen Nichols, born
at Oakland, California, daughter of W. W. and Julia (Lemp)
Nichols. The father was a native of Ohio
and came to California in 1847. He was a
stockman, and ran a hotel and teamed in the early days from Elko to Reno,
Nevada, and to Oakland. He had a horse
ranch, raising draft and standard horses, which were sold from his headquarters
in Oakland, on San Pablo and Twenty-second streets. He settled at the mines and ran a restaurant,
which proved very successful. Later he
purchased a residence in Oakland where he made his home. He acquired 11,000 acres of land at Eureka,
Nevada, and teamed to and from the mines in that state, and dealt extensively
in cattle and grain. He met a violent
death, when in falling from a load he was kicked by a horse on his Nevada ranch
in 1892, after which the property was sold.
In 1880 Mr. Nichols had bought an acre of land on Twenty-third and San
Pablo streets, Oakland, which his heirs still own. His widow now resides at Albany,
California. There were eight children in
the family: Louis, deceased; Jennie,
Mrs. O. M. Robinson of San Francisco; Mary, Mrs. Frank Agello
of Santa Cruz; Nellie, Mrs. Perryman; Florence, residing at Oakland; Julia,
Mrs. R. Duttke of San Francisco; Sarah, deceased; and
William of Oakland. Mrs. Perryman
attended the Durant school and later the Field Seminary at Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. Perryman had one son, Charles,
Jr., who died at the age of two years and four months. In his political views Mr. Perryman is an
earnest Republican, doing all in his power to promote the interests of his party
and keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the day. For the past twenty-five years he has been a
member of Stockton Lodge 218, B. P. O. E.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1553-1554. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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