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JOHN J. STRIEFF
A thoroughly wide-awake, progressive
young dairyman, who is to be found in the front ranks of the successful
California agriculturists, is John J. Strieff, who was born on Dry Creek, about
four miles east of Galt, in San Joaquin County, on February 1, 1900, the son of
Henry and Mary Ann Strieff, the former a native of the Canton Glaras, in Switzerland, while the latter came from Canton Urie. Mr. Strieff
reached California some forty years ago; when he was about thirty years of age,
but Mrs. Strieff first saw the Promised Land of the West in her eighteenth
year. He bought forty acres near the
Elliott schoolhouse, and their children attended the grammar school at
Galt. The worthy Swiss couple had nine
children in their family. Henry, the
eldest, is now deceased; Jacob is at Oroville; Fred is in San Francisco; Peter
is with his father on the ranch; John is the subject of this sketch; Harry C.
is associated with John; Anna married David Gustafson of Hood City; and Edward
and Elizabeth, the youngest in order of birth are both
deceased. Mrs. Strieff died in
September, 1921, but Mr. Strieff is still living, at the fine old age of
seventy, honored of all men, as Mrs. Strieff was beloved by those who knew her.
John Strieff and his brother Harry,
during the last two years, engaged extensively in dairying; they have a dairy
ranch of 600 acres on Dry Creek, about one mile north of the Elliott
Schoolhouse, where there are seventy-five acres in alfalfa and the rest in
grain and ordinary pasture. They have
fifty head of cattle and are doing well.
They follow scientific methods, have the most up-to-date apparatus, and
have created and conscientiously maintain one of the most sanitary dairies in
the county. Meanwhile, along with their
busy industrial lives, they take a live interest in the political issues of the
day, Mr. Strieff being a good, stand-pat Republican, but a fine, non-partisan
“booster” for the locality in which he lives and thrives.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1525. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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