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WILLIAM R. STOEVEN
A hustling blacksmith who has one of
the best-equipped and most serviceable shops in all San Joaquin County is
William R. Stoeven, who was born near Livermore, in Livermore Valley, California,
on August 24, 1871, the son of Reimer Stoeven,
a native of Holstein, Germany, who had married Miss Katherine Schutt, a
native of Germany. Reimer Stoeven came
out to California in 1866, and for a year mined at Mokelumne Hill, in Calaveras
County. The worthy couple is still
living in the Livermore Valley. Mr.
Stoeven owns a fine grain ranch of 253 acres in Livermore Valley, and there
William attended the local schools. They
have four children: William, Lewis,
Annetta and Theresa.
When fourteen years of age, William
R. Stoeven began working out for himself; and having learned the blacksmith
trade, he has followed that line of industry.
In 1909 he came to Clements and opened a shop, and there he has since
carried on a general blacksmith business.
He does all kinds of iron and wood work; and his many patrons generally
find that when he has once undertaken to do anything, it is done in such a
manner that it is not necessary to do it over again.
At Livermore, on October 18, 1899,
Mr. Stoeven was married to Miss Alvina J. Kruger, a native of Texas, and a
daughter of Fred and Sophie Kruger. Her
father came to California when she was a young maiden, and he became a farmer
of note in the Livermore Valley, where she attended the district schools. Five children were born to the worthy couple,
Alvina, George, Fred, Tilly and Sophie.
Mr. and Mrs. Stoeven have four children:
Lawrence R., Harold George, Chester William and Selma C. Mr. Stoeven lives in Stockton, and he
commutes in traveling back and forth to his work. Lawrence is the head bookkeeper for the
Stockton branch of the Western Meat Company.
Harold is bookkeeper for the Western States Electric Company. Chester is a horse-trainer at Stockton; and
Miss Selma is with Messrs. Humphrey & Mathews, of Stockton.
Mr. Stoeven is a Republican, and a
member of the Odd Fellows, at Clements, in which lodge he has passed through
all the chairs. He is also a member of
the Modern Woodmen of America, at Clements.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1625-1626. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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