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LUTHER C. WALLING
Well known as a vineyardist
and agriculturist, Luther C. Walling has been a resident of San Joaquin County
for the past twenty-six years, since he purchased his present home consisting
of fifteen acres on Cherokee Lane, some three and a half miles south of Lodi. He has been a successful manager and has
gained an excellent reputation for both quantity and quality of products. He was born on a ranch south of Turlock,
California, on January 14, 1871, a son of Andrew and Jennie Martha (Penter) Walling. The
father, Andrew Walling, came to California in an early day and engaged in grain
farming. He passed away when Luther C.
was a child of two years. The mother is
still living, residing in Oakland.
Luther C. Walling was reared by
relatives and attended school at Placerville, California, until he was fifteen
years old, when he started to make his own way in the world, working on farms
and doing teaming work. He settled at
Franklin, California, and worked there for a number of years at farm work; then
he rambled over various parts of California until 1896 when he settled in the
Live Oak district of San Joaquin County and there
purchased fifteen acres of unimproved land on Cherokee Lane, just south of the
Live Oak schoolhouse. On this land he
set out a vineyard and developed an irrigation system. He also bought fifteen acres on the Dayton
Road, set out in vineyard, then sold it. Mrs. Walling owns twenty-four acres of the
old McCoy place, on the Eight-mile Road; one-half of it was set to vineyard by
her father, the balance being unimproved.
The marriage of Mr. Walling occurred
on November 16, 1904, on the old McCoy ranch in the Live Oak district, which
united him with Miss Alice McCoy, a native Californian, a daughter of Daniel
and Adelia (Dayton) McCoy, natives of Lincoln County,
Illinois, and Michigan, respectively. In
1858 Daniel McCoy left his native state for the west. Arriving on the coast he stopped for a short
time in Oregon, then came to California and engaged in mining at Sonora mines;
then he removed to San Joaquin County, where he bought a quarter-section of
land on Cherokee Lane, eight miles north of Stockton, and engaged in grain
farming. Mrs. Walling received her
education in the Davis School District north of Stockton. There were six children born to this pioneer
couple: Ella, Mrs. Sprague, resides at
Raymond, California; Ann, Mrs. David Bunch, resides in Los Angeles; Alice, Mrs.
Walling; Rowland Henry reside in Woodbridge; Louis is deceased; and Belle, Mrs.
Hearn. The last days of Mr. and Mrs.
McCoy were spent in Stockton, where Mr. McCoy passed away at the age of
seventy-three, and his wife was sixty-odd years old when she died. For the past twenty-five years Mr. Walling
has been a member of the Stockton Parlor No. 7, N. S. G. W. During his long residence in San Joaquin
County he has formed a wide acquaintance and he has also gained creditable
success, and by perseverance and determination has gained a place among the
substantial agriculturalists of the community.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1526-1527. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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