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KORNELIUS H. SIEMEN
A vineyardist, who realizes
exceptionally good results through progressive enterprise and untiring
industry, is Kornelius H. Siemen, a native of Osil
Kiel, Siberia, where he was born on October 22, 1875, the son of Heinrich and
Maria (Johnson) Siemen. His father was a
farmer, and there were eight children in the family: Heinrich, Jr., was the eldest; and then came
John, Jacob, Maria, Katherina, Anna, while the
youngest was Kornelius, of our review.
Another child, who died, was also called Anna.
Kornelius Siemen attended the
grammar school, but when he was fourteen years of age, he had the great
misfortune to lose his parents, and since that time he has made his own
way. He went to work in a dry-goods
store, and also worked on farms, and at all kinds of hard work, gradually
getting ahead, and by November 11, 1902, was in a position to set up his own
household. He married Kathrina Dick, born in southern Russia, and their union has
been blessed with the birth of four children:
Henry, Kornelius, John and Katie.
On August 2, 1913, Mr. Siemen landed
in New York. He came on directly to
California, and at Berenda farmed for one and half
years. Coming then to Lodi, he took a
job for Beckman, Welch & Thompson, as floor-walker, which he kept for three
years. After that he opened the Siemen Grocerteria in Lodi, which
he ran successfully for a year and a half.
Selling out he bought the ranch of fifteen acres upon which he now
lives. He had ten acres of Zinfandel
grapes, and five acres of Tokay grapes, and he obtains excellent irrigation by
means of electric motor power and a four-inch pump. He moved onto his ranch in December, 1921,
and since then has rapidly developed the land.
He now has one of the best tracts of productive acreage in the vicinity,
operated according to the latest methods.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1496. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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