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MRS. THRESIE M. PLOTZ
An interesting example of the
American woman who is able to hold her own in the development and management of
important ranch property, is afforded by Mrs. Thresie M. Plotz, who lives on
the Jack Tone Road, about eleven and one-half miles out of Stockton, where she
has a dairy farm of seventy-four choice acres.
An Austrian by birth, she was born in Landskron,
the daughter of Frank and Thresie Plotz, hers being a curious instance of the
perpetuation of the same family name after marriage as before. Her father reached the age of sixty, and her
mother rounded out her fifty-third year.
There were four children in the family, her three brothers bearing the
names of Frank, Peter and Joseph. She
attended the excellent schools in her locality in Austria until she was twelve
years old, and then she came to the United Sates with her parents, bringing
with them some of those homely and much-prized virtues for which her countrymen
for centuries have been noted. Her
father was a stonemason, and he settled in Steele County, Minnesota, where she
was able to finish her schooling.
In 1895 Mr. Plotz came out to
California and Stockton, and in May, 1896 she married John Plotz, who was born
in a village neighboring her native place, and called Bomich-Trubau. He came out to Minnesota in 1880, and four
years later to California. In 1886 he
came back to the Coast and settled at Stockton.
In 1902 the home place of 160 acres was purchased, eleven and one-half
miles out of Stockton.; and a portion of this ranch has since been devoted to
general dairying, and has been developed and improved under the wise
administration of Mrs. Plotz. The ranch
has been divided, Mrs. Plotz owning seventy-four acres, which she devotes to
dairying and grain raising.
Six children have come to add to the
happiness of this estimable lady, herself the center of a wide circle of
devoted friends. Mary is Mrs. Raymond
Moran, of San Francisco. John, a
promising young man of nineteen years, passed to the great Beyond. Emma is Mrs. Chris Battalion, of Stockton;
the others are Frieda, Bertha and John Plotz, Jr. Mrs. Moran has two children: Marie Ellen and Raymond, and Mrs. Battalion
has one, named Norman Francis. Mrs.
Plotz is a Republican; and in her civic relations she is public-spirited, and
deeply interested in the great questions of the day.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1348. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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