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HENRY SIEMERING
Born in Nimburg, Hanover, Germany,
March 7, 1874, Henry Siemering is a son of Henry and Minnie (Dohrmann)
Siemering. Three months before he was
born his father died, and in consequence he was reared until he was eleven
years old by his grandfather, Dick Siemering.
The opportunities for an education were limited, for at the age of
eleven years he began to earn his own living.
In 1885 he left his native country and came to America. Coming direct to San Francisco, he found work
in a grocery store during the day, and at night went to school, working in this
way for six years. He then moved to San
Joaquin County and began working for wages on various farms in the Ray and New
Hope school districts. Afterwards he
rented a farm for a few years and engaged in farming on his own
responsibility. With the funds he had
been able to accumulate by hard labor and careful saving, he then purchased a
forty-acre ranch four and a half miles west of Woodbridge. At the time of purchase there was seven acres
of the ranch in bearing vineyard, and Mr. Siemering has set eight more acres to
vines, so that there are now fifteen acres in grapes and twenty-five acres
devoted to truck gardening and general farming, including about two acres of
orchard.
On September 21, 1907, Mr. Siemering
was married at Sacramento to Miss Stella Williams, a native of Keokuk County,
Iowa, and a daughter of John H. and Minnie (Pample)
Williams, the former a native of Iowa and the latter of Saxony, Germany. The parents came to California in 1890, and
the father is now a vineyardist west of Woodbridge. Mrs. Siemering was the older of two children
and the only one living. She was
educated in the Woodbridge school. Mr.
and Mrs. Siemering are the parents of four children: William, Lawrence, Minnie and Francis
(deceased). The home ranch is improved
with an irrigation system consisting of a three-inch pump driven by a six
horsepower motor.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1636. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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