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JOHN H. SOLKMORE
An influential citizen of Lodi, who
is now serving his locality as justice of the peace, is John Solkmore, a native son born in Tehama County on September
26, 1881, a son of John W. and Margaret (Evers) Solkmore. His father was a native of South Carolina and
his mother of Louisiana. The former was
a Civil War veteran and Grandfather Solkmore was an
early settler of California, crossing the plains with ox teams in 1867,
settling in Colusa County; Margaret Evers came to California during the same
year via the Isthmus route; and they were married in California. Mr. Solkmore farmed
in Colusa and Tehama counties and in 1884 located in Woodbridge, San Joaquin
County. In the late ‘90s he removed to
Texas and spent three years there, then returned to the San Joaquin
Valley. He passed away about seventeen
years ago, his wife surviving him until 1919.
John H. received his education in
the Woodbridge grammar schools and was graduated from the Lodi high school with
the class of 1902. For seven years he
taught school in Clements and on Union Island, and later was principal of the
Woodbridge and Houston schools. During
these years he studied law in the office of Judge Steele and was admitted to
the bar in 1908. He was elected justice
of the peace in 1914 for a four-year term and was re-elected in 1918 and 1922
each time without opposition and now is serving his third term. In politics he is a Democrat and his
influence is cast on the side of all worthy projects that are for the general
good of his locality.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1256. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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