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TRUMAN ALVIN STRONG
A prosperous vineyardist and
well-known citizen of San Joaquin County is Truman Alvin Strong who resides on
his thirty-acre vineyard, five miles south of Lodi on Cherokee Lane. He was born in Union County, Ohio, on February
23, 1858 a son of Leighton and Lavina (Cahill) Strong, both natives of Ohio,
and when our subject was six years old the family removed to Iowa County,
Iowa. The father, Leighton Strong,
served during the Civil War in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry and died from the
effect of his wounds when Truman was a lad of six years. Subsequently his mother married again and
lived to be seventy-five years old, spending her last days in California. There were three children in the family,
Richard, Elpha and Truman A., the subject of this
sketch. By her last marriage with Hiram
Jones, there was one daughter, Bertha, wife of Edward Wilson of the Waterloo
Road.
T. A. Strong received his education
in the public schools of Iowa and then worked for wages on farms until he was
twenty-two years old, when he decided to cast his lot in the West. On October 13, 1880 he arrived in Sacramento,
California, and soon left for Stockton where he worked for wages for five years
near that city. In 1885 he rented 320
acres of grain land eighteen miles from Stockton near Lone Tree; in 1888 he
settled on the J. D. Peters place and there he farmed for twenty-two
years. In 1907 he purchased his present
ranch of thirty acres about eight and a half miles north of Stockton on
Cherokee Lane. This land was a stubble
field at the time of purchase and Mr. Strong has improved it with a modern
residence and farm buildings and has set out sixteen acres to vineyard, eleven
now in full bearing.
The marriage of Mr. Strong occurred
at Stockton on November 4, 1885 and united him with Miss Bena
Wagner, a native of that city and a daughter of Jacob and Lena Wagner, her
father a pioneer butcher of Stockton.
Mrs. Strong was educated in the schools of Stockton and is one of ten
children. Mr. and Mrs. Strong are the
parents of two children: Fred, who
resides at Linden, married Nellie Bryson and they have one child, Ethel Jean
Strong; and Wesley, who lives at Stockton, married Lorraine Wolfe. In politics Mr. Strong is a Republican. He is a member of Charity Lodge No. 6, I. O.
O. F., of Stockton, and he and his wife are members of the Rebekahs, Mrs.
Strong being past noble grand of the lodge.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1303-1304. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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