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JOSEPH TEIXEIRA
Well known among the popular public
officials of San Joaquin County is Joseph Teixeira, the efficient acting city
marshal of Tracy. He was born at St.
George, in the Azores Islands, April 10, 1886 the son of John and Mary
(Machado) Teixeira, pioneer settlers of Santa Clara County. John Teixeira was a tradesman in the employ
of the Brick Manufactory at San Jose and Pleasanton; he passed away at San Jose
in 1919, and his widow resides with her son near Tracy.
Joseph Teixeira received a good
elementary education, first at the district school in Mountain View, and then
at the Hamilton school in San Jose; and after that he entered the employ of
John Stocks Sons in San Jose, where he learned the plumbing and sheet-metal
working trade, remaining in that shop for seven years. For the next five years he was in charge of
the installing of Byron Jackson deep-well pumps, representing C. L. Meisterheim, at San Jose, in their work throughout central
California. In 1902 he went to Cherokee,
in Butte County, and engaged in hydraulic mining for a large improvement
corporation, and was occupied in this venture until 1904.
Six years ago Mr. Teixeira came to
Tracy and acquired forty acres of choice land in the Naglee-Burke
district, which he developed into a successful dairy and alfalfa ranch, at the
same time that he took full charge of the Naglee-Burke
Irrigation District pumping plant, which he continued to manage until three
years ago; but he sold out his interests, on removing to the ranch south of
Tracy, where he formed a partnership with Mr. White, his father-in-law, in
buying 160 acres, he keeping 60 acres and Mr. White 100 acres.
In 1919 Mr. Teixeira was appointed
deputy city marshal of Tracy, an office he filled to everybody’s satisfaction
until ten months ago, when he became acting city marshal, and authorized to
take entire charge of the peace officer’s work.
Since then, he has carried out a series of raids on illicit liquor and
drug sellers in the environs of the city, and has the hearty support of the
county officials for his fearless attacks on any lawbreakers, irrespective of
their position and influence. He is also
a deputy sheriff of the county.
At Cupertino in 1909, Mr. Teixeira
was married to Miss Mary White, the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. White,
whose life-story is given elsewhere in this volume, and their fortunate union
has been blessed with the birth of four children: Mabel, Edwin, Lucile and Marie. Mr. Teixeira is a Catholic, and a member of
the Woodmen of the World and the Druids of San Jose, and also of the S. E. S.
of Tracy. He owns considerable real
estate and residential property in Tracy, and is a strong advocate of
irrigation, serving as a director for the Banta-Carbona
district.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1340. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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