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HARVEY F. UPTON
A highly progressive and very
successful young rancher, making a specialty of vineyarding,
is Harvey F. Upton, who was born in Stockton on October 22, 1886, a son of
Walter and Florence (Hitchcock) Upton.
When two years old, he lost his father; his mother afterwards married
Francis R. Hamsher, whose life-story is elsewhere
sketched in this volume.
Harvey F. Upton was sent to the
schools in Stockton and Aberdeen, and when he was fourteen years of age began
to make his own way. He learned the
machinist’s trade, both iron work and auto repairing, and worked at various
times in the Sampson Iron Works, Sterling Iron Works, and Stockton Iron Works,
becoming thereby an expert mechanic. His
service with the Sampson Iron Works extended through eight years, and he also
worked in several of the leading garages in Stockton. In the harvesting season he ran a Holt
harvester for his stepfather for many years.
In January, 1921, Mr. Upton began to
improve the forty-five acres of land that had fallen to his wife, a part of the
old Northrop estate. In 1913 was married
to Miss Mildred Northrop, a daughter of George L. and Elizabeth (Van Valkenberg) Northrop, both of whom were born in San Joaquin
County. He has twelve acres in vineyard,
one-half in Zinfandel and one-half in Tokay grapes. He has sunk a well, and has a good five-inch
pump.
Mr. Upton endeavors to follow only
the latest, most scientific and practical methods, and to use only the most
up-to-date apparatus.
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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