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JOHN REIMCHE
Among the excellent vineyards in the
Lodi section of San Joaquin County is that owned by John Reimche, whose
fifteen-acre vineyard lies three miles from Lodi on the Kettleman Lane. He is a native of Krem, South Russia, being
born on August 7, 1878, a son of George and Sophie (Bechthold) Reimche, also
natives of Russia. Grandfather Peter
Reimche was a Russian by birth and a farmer in his native country, and his son,
George, followed in his footsteps and engaged in agricultural pursuits in
Russia until he removed to the United States in 1893. He first settled in South Dakota, later
removed to Kansas, and still later to Alberta, Canada, and engaged in farming
in each locality. It was not until 1910
that he came to California and settled in San Joaquin County, where he bought
and improved a five-acre vineyard three miles east of Lodi. John Reimche, our subject, is the eldest of
his nine children and in 1893 accompanied his parents to the United States,
settling in Hutchinson County, South Dakota, where he assisted his father with
the farm work for five years.
On December 20, 1898, Mr. Reimche
was married to Miss Lena Baumbach, a daughter of George and Lottie (Delck) Baumbach, the parents of
eight children, as follows: Conrad;
George; Jacob; David; Elizabeth; Mrs. Lena Reimche; Lydia and Katherine. Her father, George Baumbach, died at the age
of seventy-four and the mother at forty-eight years of age. The same year of his marriage, Mr. Reimche
bought eighty acres from his father-in-law and continued to farm until 1907,
when he removed to California and settled on a twenty-acre vineyard near Lodi,
which he had purchased. He built a house
on this place and put it in fine condition, then sold it; he then bought a
ten-acre vineyard on Kettleman Lane and built a house and outbuildings, also
installed an irrigation system; later he bought a five-acre vineyard on Hogan
Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Reimche are the
parents of four children: Bertha,
deceased; Ida, Hilda and Albon. In politics Mr. Reimche is a Republican and
in religious faith a member of the Church of God.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George H., History of San
Joaquin County, California , Pages
1564-1565. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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