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EDWARD TRUMAN WISNER
An alert, energetic business man of
Lodi, E. T. Wisner has been engaged in the contracting and building business
since 1905. He is a native of Vicksburg,
Michigan, where he was born on September 21, 1877 and when a small lad his
family removed to Council Grove, Kansas, where he was reared and educated until
he was twenty years old. His first work
in construction was for the Santa Fe Railroad building bridges; he then removed
to Bellingham, Washington, and worked as a carpenter and millwright and in
October, 1905 arrived in San Francisco, where he was employed by the C. C.
Moore Company, and was sent to Tonopah, Nevada, to erect a cyanide plant and
stamp mill. He returned to San Francisco
during the year of the Great Fire and helped in rebuilding of the city,
remaining there for seven years, when he came to Lodi to work on the Union high
school building, and during the eleven years of his residence he has erected
hundreds of houses all over the northern part of the county, making a specialty
of medium priced bungalows, although he has built garages and stores.
Mr. Wisner married Miss Sarah
Handley, a native of Santa Cruz County, California, and they are the parents of
four children: Clarence, Arthur, Lucile
and Roy. The family resides on
Woodbridge Avenue, where they have a three-acre Tokay vineyard of
thirteen-year-old vines. Fraternally Mr.
Wisner is a member of the Woodmen of the World.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1605. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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