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HERMAN VOLLBRECHT
San Joaquin County is largely
indebted to the intensive farmer for its remarkable progress and development;
and to this class belongs Herman Vollbrecht,
whose excellent vineyard of twenty acres is among the best improved and most
successfully managed ranches in the county.
He was born in Iowa, near Riceville, Mitchell County, on September 30,
1881, a son of William and Anna Vollbrecht. William Vollbrecht
was born in Germany and was brought to America by his parents when he was three
years old. Herman Vollbrecht
is one of a family of twelve children:
Martha, deceased; Herman, of this sketch; Amanda; Jennie; Emma, now Mrs.
Merrill; Minnie; Charles, residing at Lodi; and Lillian, Clara, Cora, Jack and
Robert, of Stockton. His father and
mother still reside in Iowa.
Herman Vollbrecht
received his education in the Iowa grammar schools. When he was twenty-one he left the parental
roof, but remained in Iowa, farming until 1907, when he came to California and
settled at Lodi, where he purchased ten acres in the vicinity of Victor; later
he added ten acres to it, so that he now has twenty acres in a fine
vineyard. He has a fine ranch house on
this property, and it is equipped with a good irrigation plant, with a
four-inch pump driven by a ten-horsepower motor, which is sufficient for the
cultivation and irrigation of his entire twenty acres. He also owns an interest in 106 acres just
north of the Mokelumne River in partnership with C. W. Hoag, of Christian
Colony, and J. J. Schmiedt, of Victor. At the present time, this property is
undeveloped; but it will be improved, and probably set to vines.
The marriage of Mr. Vollbrecht occurred on November 14, 1906, at Elma, Iowa,
and united him with Miss Laura Miller, a native of Iowa, born in the vicinity
of Elma, and a daughter of Henry and Bertha Miller. Henry Miller passed away on March 8, 1920, at
Lodi; the mother still lives at Lodi.
Mrs. Vollbrecht is the oldest of four
children, the others being Dorothy, Roy and Bertha. Mr. Vollbrecht is a
Republican and fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
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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