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HARRY
SIGELKOFF
Among the dairies of San Joaquin County supplying pure and wholesome milk to the residents of Lodi is that owned and conducted by Harry Sigelkoff. A native of New Jersey he was born at Woodbridge on December 15, 1876, a son of John Henry and Anna Louise Sigelkoff, the former a native of Germany who came to the United States when a young man and engaged in farming. In April, 1889, the family removed to California, settling in San Joaquin County, where the father purchased five acres three miles southwest of Lodi. Harry Sigelkoff is the third eldest in a family of six children, the others being Anna, Mrs. George B. Marshall, of Oakland; Ebba, deceased; Frank E., of Escalon; Sigrid, Mrs. W. C. Housken, of Thornton; and Arthur A., of Oakland. The father passed away in July, 1909, on the home ranch at the age of sixty-five, while the mother makes her home in Oakland and is about eighty years old.
Harry Sigelkoff attended school in his native state until the family came West to California, and here he attended school in Lodi, meanwhile assisting his father with the ranch work. He now leases the home place from his mother where he conducts his dairy along sanitary and modern lines, the whole ranch being devoted to the raising of alfalfa. Mr. Sigelkoff is a Republican in politics, and a stanch friend of local progress in all directions.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham,
George H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1498. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
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2012 V. Gerald
Iaquinta.
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