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Joaquin County
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GEORGE THOMING
Among those who have contributed
largely to the agricultural development in San Joaquin County is George
Thoming, who since 1866 has made his home in California and now resides in the
New Jerusalem School District, where he owns 520 acres of fine land under a
high state of cultivation. He was born
in Holstein, Germany, December 28, 1843, a son of Michael and Wiebke (Thode) Thoming, who were also natives of Holstein. In his native country the son was reared and
in its public schools received his education.
In 1886 he came to America, taking
passage at Hamburg on a steamer for New York, and thence he came via the
Isthmus route to California. He left
Hamburg on June 2 and arrived in San Francisco on July 13, 1866. He remained in the neighborhood of that city
for a short time and then removed to Solano County, whence he came to San
Joaquin County in 1868, where his older brother, Thias
Thoming, had come in 1864 and had taken up land under
a Government pre-emption. In 1870 he
took up his abode on the ranch in the New Jerusalem School District, which has
since been his home, consisting of 520 acres, all of which is under cultivation
and yields him good crops in return for the care and labor which he has
bestowed upon the fields. Mr. Thoming
received his U. S. citizenship at San Francisco on July 8, 1871.
In 1875 Mr. Thoming was married to
Miss Lena Mashoff, a native of Holstein, Germany, and
they became the parents of the following children: Jacob is the manager of the Thoming ranch;
Anna Maria, who is now Mrs. Francis Huck, has three children; Charles conducts
a contract farm and power machine business at Stockton. Mrs. Thoming passed away on March 24, 1883,
at the family home. In community affairs
Mr. Thoming has always been deeply interested and has been the champion of his
locality and county. For thirteen years
he served as a trustee of the New Jerusalem School District, eleven years of
that time serving as clerk of the board.
He is unfaltering in his advocacy of the principles of the Republican
Party and most loyal in his support of everything that tends to advance public
progress and elevate society. He belongs
to the Lutheran Church and is identified with the Knights of Pythias lodge at
Tracy; he is also a member of Sumner Lodge No. 177, I. O. O. F. at Tracy, and
of Tracy Encampment, and in his life exemplifies the helpful spirit which is
the basic element of that fraternity.
Mr. Thoming has made two visits to his native land, one in 1905 and the
other in 1913, returning to California in February, 1914. In 1921 he retired from active business life,
after fifty years of activity in the agricultural development of the county and
the management is now entrusted to his son Jacob. Coming to America when twenty-three years of
age, Mr. Thoming has never regretted the step then taken, for in this land,
with its varied opportunities, he has gained success and has won the confidence
and good will of those with whom he has been associated.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1039. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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