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JOHN EVERT POSEY
A substantial citizen and prosperous
farmer of the younger generation, John Evert Posey is a practical and
successful man of affairs. He was born
on his father’s ranch six miles west of Lodi, California, August 3, 1897, a son
of John M. and Lena M. (Stimpson) Posey, worthy pioneers of San Joaquin
County. John Evert Posey received his
education in the Turner district school and the Lodi high school, and his
earliest recollections are of the old home farm, where he was trained in the
work of the ranch, thus fitting him for the responsibilities that came to him
later. He has always been in partnership
with his father in the extensive ranch holdings; one forty-acre ranch about
seven miles from Lodi on the Harshner Road has been set to young vineyard, and
Mr. Posey resides on a fifty-acre ranch on the same road, which is a producing
vineyard, set with plums, cherries and pears; this ranch has two pumping
plants, while the forty-acre ranch is under the Stockton-Mokelumne Irrigation
System. In October, 1918, he entered the
U. S. Army and was sent to Fort Rosecrans, at San Diego, California, serving in
the 25th Coast Artillery Corps until his discharge, December 21,
1918.
On April 23, 1919, at Lodi, Mr.
Posey was married to Miss Myrtle Rond, a daughter of
Nick and Jessie Rond.
She was two years old when her parents came to California, and she
received her education at the Ray district school in the vicinity of her
father’s farm in San Joaquin County. Her
father is a well-to-do farmer on the Sargent Road west of Lodi. Mr. and Mrs. Posey are the parents of one
child, Generose.
Mr. Posey is a public-spirited citizen, a friend of schools and all
enterprises for the public good, and has been able to make his influence felt
for progress in all his relations with business and civic affairs; and in
politics he is a Republican.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1577. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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