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One mile west of Clements is located
the 100-acre ranch owned by Louis F. Stabell, an energetic farmer of good
business qualifications. He was born in
Alsace near Strasbourg on May 11, 1862, the son of Frank and Caroline Stabell,
farmers in their native country. Louis
F. Stabell is one of a family of four children, but the only one residing in
California. In 1880 Mr. Stabell came to
the United States and worked for wages for five years in New York, or until he
came to California. Arriving in
California, he stopped for a short time in Sacramento. Going then to San Joaquin County, he worked
as foreman for James Brown on his dairy ranch and remained there for the
following fifteen years. He then went to
Terminous and purchased a sixty-acre tract of land,
and in the meantime owned and operated the Terminous
store and hotel for sixteen years, when he sold his interests and located at
Clements and purchased the place where he has since resided. His place consists of 100 acres one mile west
of Clements which was a barley field in 1918, but which Mr. Stabell has
patiently and intelligently brought to a high state of cultivation. He has eighteen acres in vineyard, a family
orchard and twelve acres in alfalfa. Mr.
Stabell is a man that is never idle, is never satisfied unless he is helping to
increase the yield of the soil, thus aiding materially in the progress of the
community.
Mr. Stebell’s
marriage in San Francisco on November 7, 1892, united him with Miss Ceciline Gorman, a native of Quebec, Canada. Mrs. Stabell came to California in 1889 in
company with a brother. Mr. and Mrs.
Stabell are the parents of two children:
Paul L. and Viola. In national
politics a Republican, Mr. Stabell readily aids all measures that are for the upbuilding and development of the community where he has
made his home for the past thirty-seven years.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1546. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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