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PETER ZORNIG
A rancher and dairyman of the Lodi
section of the San Joaquin Valley who is making a success of his undertaking by
the labor of his hands is Peter Zornig, who like many successful men began with
small capital. He was born in Hamburg,
Germany, May 14, 1882, a son of Michael and Katherine Zornig. The father, a brickmason, came to the United
States when Peter was a child of four years and first settled in Clinton, Iowa,
but remained there but a short time when he removed to California and settled
at Franklin. He and his wife are the
parents of two children: Peter and Anna,
Mrs. J. W. Wilson, living at Elk Grove, California.
Peter Zornig received a grammar
school education in the schools of Franklin, California, and remained under the
parental roof until he was twenty-one years old, when he established a livery
stable business in Sacramento which he conducted for five years, then sold it
and removed to Placerville, where he was engaged in the livery business, but
remained there but a short time when he returned to Sacramento County and took
up dairying on the home place with his father.
On June 18, 1913, Mr. Zornig was
married in Lodi to Miss Meta H. Lange.
She was born at Woodbridge, California, and received her education at
the Henderson School. Her parents were
both natives of Germany, who came to California in 1881 and settled at
Woodbridge where they reared a family of seven children: Emma, William, Herman, Meta H., Albert, John,
and Marie, Mrs. Jacob Kurtz. Her father
passed away at the age of forty-two and the mother at the age of sixty-two
years. Mrs. Zornig inherited twenty-five
acres from her father’s estate, located on Kettleman Lane one mile south of
Lodi and on this ranch the young married couple took up their abode. Mr. Zornig planted fifteen acres to alfalfa
and has a ten-acre vineyard of Mission grapes.
On this ranch Mr. Zornig runs a dairy of twenty cows and has one of the
most up-to-date dairy barns in the county, being well equipped with modern
machinery and sanitary in every particular.
In politics Mr. Zornig supports the best man and measures that he
considers best for all the people and the county. Mr. and Mrs. Zornig are members of the German
Lutheran Church of Lodi. Mr. Zornig has
a strong attachment for the land of his adoption, and is thoroughly American in
thought and spirit.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1511-1512. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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