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RALPH J. POST
For the past two years Ralph J. Post
has been assistant manager of the Woodbridge Fruit Company, and has been so
capable in this position that the business of the company has been continuously
growing. Mr. Post is also actively
interested in grape culture, owning twenty-five acres in San Joaquin County and
forty acres near Herald, Sacramento County, the entire
acreage being devoted to vineyard. He
was born in San Joaquin County on his father’s ranch east of Stockton on the
Copperopolis Road November 25, 1892, a son of Frank H. and Cora Belle (Ralph)
Post, both natives of California. His
paternal grandfather came to California as early as 1848. The father passed away at the age of fifty
years, while the mother is still living.
Ralph J. Post attended the Live Oak
district school, the Salem school in Lodi and the Stockton high school; later
he took a business course in Stockton, and at the age of eighteen years he
became a paying teller in the First National Bank of Lodi, where he remained
for seven years. He then resigned to
become cashier of the Bank of Galt, a position he filled with efficiency for
two years. He then purchased his
twenty-five acre ranch, which is in young vineyard, and both this and his
forty-acre vineyard in Sacramento County are well irrigated. Mr. Post is a member of the Rio Oso Fruit Company, with headquarters at Wheatland,
California, and acts as secretary of the company; he is also a stockholder in
the Citizens National Bank of Lodi.
On November 11, 1914, in Lodi, Mr.
Post was married to Miss Eugenia Villinger, born at Covina, California, a
daughter of Asa and Martha (Kaiser) Villinger.
Her father was born on a sailing vessel en route to California around
the Horn in the early days. Mr. Post is
a Republican in politics and fraternally belongs to the Masonic Lodge in Lodi,
the Commandery at Stockton, also the Royal Arch of that city and Ben Ali Temple
at Sacramento. Mr. and Mrs. Post are the
parents of one daughter, Isabelle. Mr.
Post is an excellent businessman, and has gained for himself a handsome
competence, which places him among the community’s substantial residents.
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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