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CHARLES W. VOLLBRECHT
A valuable ranch of twenty-five
acres on East Pine Street, about a mile east of Lodi is the property of Charles
W. Vollbrecht, who is engaged in the culture of grapes. He was born at Riceville, Iowa, on March 26,
1890, a son of William and Anna Vollbrecht.
William Vollbrecht was born in Germany and came to America with his
parents when he was three years old.
Charles W., our subject, is one of a family of twelve children: Martha, deceased; Herman; Amanda; Jennie;
Emma is Mrs. Merrill; Minnie, Charles, our subject; Lillian; Clara; Cora; Jack
and Robert. William Vollbrecht and his
wife now live retired in Riceville, Iowa.
Charles W. received a grammar school
education at Riceville, Iowa, and grew to manhood on his father’s farm. When he was twenty-two years old he rented
440 acres (the home place) and later bought his father’s stock and farm
equipment, where he farmed for seven years.
The marriage of Mr. Vollbrecht
occurred at Riceville on November 6, 1912, and united him with Miss Dorothy
Peters, a native of Tama, Iowa, a daughter of John and Matilda (Lohrmann) Peters, a farmer of that state. There were five children in her family: Ella, Dorothy, Mrs. Vollbrecht, Elmer, Hazel
and Irene. In 1918 Mr. Vollbrecht came
to California and purchased seventeen and a half acres northwest of Victor, a
full-bearing vineyard, and in 1919 sold this property and purchased the
twenty-five acre ranch on East Pine Street, where he resides. He also owned another ranch near Lodi, but
recently sold it for $2,600 per acre and now devotes his entire time to the
cultivation and development of his home place.
Mr. and Mrs. Vollbrecht are the parents of one son, Earl. He and his family are members of the Lodi
Lutheran Church and in politics he is a Republican. He enjoys the confidence of the business
community and he has secured a good home and gained a comfortable competence.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1590. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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