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DAVID D.
WERNER
A progressive and successful vineyardist, who lives near Kenefick Station, on the traction line, about five miles northeast of Acampo, is David D.
Werner, a native of Hutchinson County, S. D., where he was born on January 12, 1884. His father, Fred Werner, was a native of Russia who came out to South Dakota, preempted and homesteaded land and raised grain, and married Miss Elizabeth Reiswig, also a native of Russia, who had likewise come to South Dakota. They had twelve children, of whom nine are living today: Mary, John, Abraham, David, Adam. Sarah, Emmett, Fred, (deceased), Fred (the ninth-born, also deceased), Katherine, Miriam, and Leona.
David Werner was educated in the grammar schools of Hutchinson County and remained at home until he was of age, when, in 1905, he came out to
California. On February 9, 1906, he married Miss Katherine Baumbach. the daughter of George and Charlotte (Delck) Baumbach, substantial farmer-folks, who took up homestead and preemption land. One of their daughters, Mrs. Werner's sister, married John Bechtold. Both Mr. and Mrs. Baumbach are living in Canada today. In 1906 Mr. Werner bought twenty acres on the traction line near Kenefick Station, ten acres of which are in vineyard, and ten in open farmland, well irrigated by means of a six-horse-power motor and a three-inch pump. Mr. Werner farms according to the latest methods with excellent results. Mr. and Mrs. Werner have five children: Ernest, Fred, Clarence, Viola and Dorothy. Mr. Werner belongs to the Church of God at Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham,
George H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1511. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
©
2012 V. Gerald
Iaquinta.
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