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CHARLES OSCAR WEBER
A successful California rancher of
whom the progressive agriculturists in San Joaquin County may well be proud, is
Charles Oscar Weber, living two and one-half miles to the south of Clements, near
which place he was born on April 7, 1878, the son of Charles Kimball and Louisa
Mohrmann Weber, born in New Hampshire and Iowa respectively, who came to
California about sixty years ago, early enough for them still to render the
state some worthwhile services as pioneers.
Mr. Weber settled on a ranch about two and a half miles south of the
site of present Clements, when Lockeford was the post office and one had to
take a long, far look to discern a neighbor.
Six children came to gladden Mr. and Mrs. Weber. Minnie has become Mrs. G. Linn; Charles O. is
the subject of our interesting sketch; Carrie is Mrs. Daniel Linn, of Stockton;
Elsie is Mrs. Clarence McPherson of near Lockeford; Mamie is Mrs. Pettengill, and lives at San Jose; and Bernice is Mrs. Clifford,
also of Lockeford.
Charles O. Weber attended both the
Grant and the Brandt schools, and when the road past his father’s house became
a county highway and a bridge was erected across Bear Creek, he attended the
Athearn School at Clements. Still later,
he profited by an excellent commercial course at the Stockton Business
College. He remained home assisting his
father in farming and stockraising until he was married on the Dilmond Steacy Ranch, west of Mackville, on December 20, 1908, to Miss Marietta Crawford,
a native of the Brandt School District, San Joaquin County, and the daughter of
William B. and Minnie (Anderson) Crawford, born in Illinois and Denmark
respectively and married in California.
Mrs. Crawford died when Marietta was eleven years old, and her father
passed away in her twelfth year, one year and one day after the mother’s death,
leaving her and a brother named Morgan.
Then she was reared by the Dilmond Steacy family, where she lived until she was married. While her parents were yet living, they had
moved into Stockton, where the family lived for awhile; and so it happened that
she attended the Washington School. Then
her folks removed to Murphy, in Calaveras County, and there she attended the
Peppermint district school.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs.
Weber bought the old Weber home place of 160 acres. In 1916 they added 160 acres, and in 1920
acquired another half-section. The 160
acres and the 320 acres are in the Bellota district in the eastern end of San
Joaquin County, and are used as grazing land; while the half-section is farm
land and can be cultivated. Mr. Weber
has twelve head of work horses, and is well equipped with the most modern of
farm appliances. He also leases from his
father at Lockeford and is engaged in grain and stockraising. He is a Republican in matters of national
political import, and is ever ready both to “boost” the local section and to
support any well-endorsed measure likely to work for the prosperity of the
country as a whole. Mr. Weber is an Odd
Fellow, affiliated with the Clements lodge, No. 355, I. O. O. F. He has two children, Melvin Oscar and Lester
Kimball, who are attending the Athearn School.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
999. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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