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Joaquin County
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HUGO B. O. SCHEFFEL
A representative farmer of the
Peters section of San Joaquin County is H. B. O. Scheffel, whose residence in
the county dates from 1883, and since 1891 he has resided on his present home place
of fifty acres eleven miles east of Stockton on the Copperopolis Road. He was born in the province of Saxony,
Germany, September 14, 1857, and received a good public school education; in
1881, he left Germany for America, and upon his arrival spent a few months at
St. Louis, Missouri; then he began to work his way westward, stopping in Utah
where he rode the range until 1883 when he came to Stockton.
At Stockton, in 1891, occurred the
marriage of Mr. Scheffel and Mrs. Sarah Ellen (Webb) Leonhardt, widow of C. H.
Leonhardt. Mrs. Scheffel is a native
daughter of California, born near Linden, March 28, 1859, a daughter of William
Golden Webb, who came across the plains to California in 1854, where he located
near Bellota, then called Fisher’s Bridge, and engaged in farming until his
death on March 24, 1871, survived by fifteen children, of whom Mrs. Scheffel is
the fifth. Mrs. Scheffel’s
mother passed away in 1907, aged seventy-two years. By her first marriage, Mrs. Scheffel had
three children: Louena
died at the age of sixteen years; Frances Mabel is the widow of W. C. Waite and
she has one son residing at Richmond, California, she is a past noble grand in
the Rebekah Lodge; Glen E. has a wife and three children, and they reside near
Peters.
Mr. and Mrs. Scheffel are the
parents of six children: Richard O. died
in infancy; Walter Vernon owns a twenty-acre ranch near Peters and is
associated with his brother in farming; Amelia Violet is a graduate of the
Western Normal School and at the present time is in training at the Merritt
Hospital in Oakland; Lewis G. has a wife and one child and they reside in
Stockton; Hugh William enlisted and served three months in the Merchant Marine
during the World War and is now a rancher on fifteen acres near Peters; Archie
Lester is a machinist for the Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton. The same year that Mr. Scheffel was married,
he purchased fifty acres near Peters and eleven miles east of Stockton, where
he has since engaged in farming.
Thirty-one years ago Mr. Scheffel became a member of the I. O. O. F.
Lodge at Linden, and Mrs. Scheffel is prominent in the Rebekahs there. Mr. Scheffel has given his loyal support to
the school system of the county and for four years served as trustee of the
Everett School District. Mr. and Mrs.
Scheffel have many warm personal friends in the community where they have spent
so many years.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1495-1496. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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