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REESE B. THOMPSON
The owner of a splendid ranch of 350
acres, eighty acres of which is in Tokay grapes and eighty more ready to set to
the same variety, is Reese B. Thompson, the son of an early settler of
California. He was born in Sacramento
County six miles east of Galt near Dry Creek on June 13, 1891, a son of James
Henry and Lavissa (Smith) Thompson, both natives of
Virginia who came to California in 1876.
They were the parents of eleven children, namely: Mary, now Mrs. Conner of Wilton, California;
Edgar H., of Lodi, C. W., of Acampo; C. R., of Stockton; Reese B., of this
sketch; Josephine, Mrs. J. H. Chapdelaine, of Lodi;
Florence, Mrs. Galt of Stockton; Walter; and Reba, Bessie and James, the last
three deceased.
Reese B. Thompson attended the
Alabama district school in Sacramento County and completed his education with a
commercial course at Stockton. When
sixteen years of age, he started working in a store in Lodi, and later he
worked in a store at Stockton. Then he
went to Woodbridge, San Joaquin County, and rented the Huron ranch of seventy
acres, which occupied him for three years, after which he purchased the Russell
ranch of 350 acres, where he now resides.
When Mr. Thompson purchased this ranch it was grain land. He immediately set about to prepare the land
for grape cuttings, and now has eighty acres in young vineyard and eighty more
acres ready for planting; he also contemplates putting in thirty acres to
cherries and twenty acres to prunes.
There is a splendid irrigation system on the ranch consisting of a No. 2
turbine direct-drive Sterling motor-driven pump. He has also constructed two new barns on his
ranch.
On Thanksgiving Day, 1916, Mr.
Thompson was married to Miss Lucile Chapdelaine, a
native of Minnesota, and a daughter of Alex and Antonette
Chapdelaine, residents of Woodbridge, San Joaquin
County, for the past twenty-five years, where they own a vineyard. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are the parents of
three children: Reese, Jr., Cathleen and
John Alexis.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1499. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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