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JOSEPH G. WHITE
A successful farmer and dairyman is
Joseph G. White, the progressive agriculturist residing about two miles south
of Tracy. He was born in the little
village of Calietta, on the Isle of Pico in the
Azores, on November 5, 1868, under conditions which threw him upon his own
resources since his seventh year, on which account he had to shift as best he
could with far less schooling than most boys enjoy. In 1884 he left his native land and came out
to California, following his brother, Manuel, eight years his senior, and his
sister, now Mrs. Perry, who had reached California five years earlier. On reaching San Francisco in the fall, Mr.
White made his way to the home of his relatives in Siskiyou County; and in that
vicinity, for about three years, he busied himself with work on ranches. In 1887 he went to San Luis Obispo County for
awhile, but he soon returned. In 1888 he
took up 160 acres under the Homestead Act, and proving this up, in 1905 he made
a successful exchange for some orchard property in the Cupertino district of
Sana Clara Valley, where the family lived for six years, near San Jose, when he
was occupied with horticulture.
In the fall of 1911, Mr. White sold
out and removed to Tracy, purchasing ninety acres in the Burk Tract, which he
set out into alfalfa, building there a sanitary dairy of the best type. About five years later, he again made a
change, this time acquiring 160 acres near the southern limits of Tracy, in
partnership with his son-in-law, Joseph Teixeira. He received his citizenship at Yreka in 1890,
and since then he has been a staunch Republican.
At Scott Valley, in Siskiyou County,
in 1890, Mr. White was married to Miss Louisa Silva, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph N. Silva, who were early pioneers in Siskiyou County. Thirteen children were born to this happy
union. Mary is the wife of Joseph
Teixeira and the mother of three children.
Manuel lives at home. Julia is
Mrs. Joseph Melo of San Jose, and the mother of one
son. Emma died at the age of
sixteen. Joseph is single. Louisa is the wife of Joe Vierira,
and they have one son and live near Gustine; Wilhelmina comes next; Josephine
is the wife of Antone Seemias,
and they reside near Hanford; Carlos is the ninth; and the others are George,
Emile, Bernice, and Edward. Mr. White is
a Roman Catholic and the president of the I. E. E. S.; and he has also served
as president of the S. E. S. of Tracy.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1036. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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