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JULIUS RODE
The owner of a well-improved
vineyard property five miles west of Lodi on the Sargent Road is Julius Rode,
whose twenty-acre ranch has been brought to a high state of productivity. He was born at Volinsk,
Russia, November 1, 1854, a son of Daniel and Helen Rode. The father was a farmer in Russia, having 150
acres, which was devoted to general farming.
There were thirteen children in the family, Julius being the third in
order of birth. They father lived to be
seventy years old and the mother died at the age of forty-six.
Julius Rode was reared and educated
in his native country and there learned both the Russian and German languages,
and the English alphabet. He remained at
home with his parents until he was twenty-four years old, then
bought a farm of his own which he operated for twenty-five years. In the late difficulty in Russia a brother
and sister-in-law of Mr. Rode died from starvation in that famine-stricken
country. Mr. Rode sent for his brother’s
two children, one of whom is married and has one child, to come to the United
States, but owing to the immigration laws, they are not allowed to leave there
because the quota of Russian immigrants is filled; one will leave in March,
1923; the others in December. The fare
from Russia to America for the four is $1,250.
On November 26, 1878, in Russia, Mr.
Rode was married to Miss Julia Friedmann, a daughter of Gustav and Augusta
Friedmann, farmers in Russia. In 1902
Mr. Rode sold his property in Russia and came to America, first settling in
Oklahoma, where he bought a quarter-section of land, which he farmed for three
and a half years. He then sold out and
came to California, first settling in San Joaquin on Dry Creek, where he
purchased sixty acres on which he ran a dairy and there the family resided
until 1917, when he sold his ranch and moved to Lodi. There he lived three years, then purchased
his present home place of twenty acres, ten acres of which are in almonds,
interest with a Tokay vineyard, five acres in prunes, and five acres in
vineyard. In 1921 Mr. Rode erected a
fine, modern bungalow on his place and has further improved it with an
irrigation system. Twelve children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Rode: Gustave A.;
Mrs. Emma Holfield of Alameda; Mrs. Elsie Kramer of Oakland; Robert E. of
Hayward; Mrs. Lydia Altnow of Thornton; Adolphine died in Russia; Rudolph; William H. of Oakland;
Frieda died in Russia; Julius of Lodi; Erna and Reinhold are at home.
While residing near Galt, Mr. Rode
was a school trustee in his locality. In
politics he is a Republican, and in religious faith belongs to the Pentecostal
Church at Lodi. He is proud to be a
citizen of America and is a booster for San Joaquin County.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1593. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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