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OSELLUS POOL
An excellent representative of the
agricultural element and the public-spirited citizenship of San Joaquin County is found in Osellus Pool, who has been a resident of the
Lodi section since 1904. He was born at
Williamsburg, Ohio, on November 25, 1862, a son of John and Sarah (Allen) Pool,
natives of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, respectively. The father, John Pool, was a farmer in Ohio
and passed away in 1915 at the age of eighty-two years, and in 1919 the mother
passed away. They were the parents of
eight children, Osellus being the second.
Osellus
Pool in boyhood was obliged to assist
with the farm work, consequently had little opportunity to attend school. When he was twenty years old he went to
Franklin County, Nebraska, where he worked for wages for a number of
years. He then rented a quarter-section
of land for a year, and decided to purchase it.
At
Upland, Nebraska, on November 24, 1887, Mr. Pool was united in marriage with
Miss Cora B. Griswold, a native of Towanda, Pennsylvania, and the eldest of the
four children of Charles A. and Martha M. (Arnout)
Griswold, natives of New York and Pennsylvania.
Her father was a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the Ninth
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and he and his wife are residents of Lodi. Cora Griswold is the eldest of a family of
four children. Mrs. Pool received her
education in the Franklin County, Nebraska, schools and was reared on a farm in
that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Pool resided
in Nebraska seventeen years, during which time he farmed his quarter section
and was active in the development of his district, where he was a school director
for many years. They are the parents of
eight children: Rosa Belle died December
2, 1908, at the age of twenty years; Carrie M., Mrs. J. E. Baker of Lodi, has
two sons, Robert and Harold; Edith G., Mrs. Dr. W. C. Adams, of Oakland had
three children: Clarice, deceased,
Walter, Jr., and Doris; Frances A., Mrs. Lawrence F. Hosmer
of Lodi; Robert E.; Charles A., deceased; Edna B., the wife of Alvin H. Pelton, and Allen G., at home with his parents. Robert Pool enlisted on May 3, 1917, in the
U. S. Navy and from May until February was at Goat Island; then was sent to the
University of Minnesota and attended the Hospital Corps School at Minneapolis;
then was sent to Norfolk, Virginia, and placed on the transport Martha
Washington, later transferred to the transport Arcadia. He made eleven trips across the Atlantic
Ocean as a member of the hospital corps of the transport. At one time, during the influenza epidemic,
there were 400 cases of the disease on board the ship. He was discharged as a pharmacist’s mate,
first class.
Arriving
in California in 1904, Osellus Pool purchased twenty acres just off the
Kettleman Lane, about two miles southeast of Lodi, ten acres of which was in
vineyard and the balance unimproved. He
set six acres to vineyard, one acre to alfalfa, one acre to orchard, and the
balance was used for building space.
Here he erected a fine, two-story house and ample outbuildings, and has
installed a fine irrigation system. Mr.
Pool has always been most keenly interested in educational affairs; he and his
wife are both staunch Republicans and are active members of the Congregational
Church of Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1576-1577. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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