History of San Joaquin County, California : with biographical sketches of leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 115

Author: Tinkham, George H. (George Henry), b. 1849
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1660

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John Boyce passed away June 26, 1913, mourned by his family and friends. He was a great reader and loved books and magazines. He had a fine library of books on all topics, but books of travel and history were his hobby and he had the issues of the Wide

JOHN BOYCE

MRS. EMMA BOYCE

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World Magazine from the first copy. He was a member of Duroc Lodge No. 50, K. P., and Jefferson Lodge No. 98, Odd Fellows, in Woodbridge in both of which he was very popular. Since his death, Mrs. Boyce makes her home in Lodi, surrounded by her children and many friends, who appreciate her many kindnesses and hospitality.

WILLIAM C. COLBERG .- For a number of years having been closely identified with the business interests of the city, William C. Colberg is a man of keen discrimination and judgment, and his executive ability and excellent management have brought to the Colberg Motor Boats, of which he is the head, a large degree of success. The safe policy which he inaugu- rated in his business career has secured to the com- pany a patronage which makes the volume of trade transacted of considerable magnitude. He was born in New York City, January 25, 1871, a son of Charles and Katherine (Menke) Colberg, both natives of Ger- many. The father brought his family to California in 1875 and located in San Francisco, where he worked at his trade of cabinetmaker until 1881, when he re- moved to Stockton and was employed by the Houser Harvester Company, their plant being located where the Roberts & Clark Planing Mill on South Center Street now stands; later he removed to Los Angeles and again engaged in his trade. There were five chil- dren in the family: William C., Kate, Martha, Charles and Henry J. Both parents are now deceased.

William C. Colberg received his education in the schools of Stockton and when the family removed to Los Angeles he learned the cabinetmaker's trade un- der his father. Returning to Stockton, he secured employment with the Houser-Haines Harvester Com- pany and while in their employ in 1898, ran his first boat to the Delta district. When he first began the transportation business N. P. Anderson was asso- ciated with Mr. Colberg in his enterprise and their first boat was a small craft that carried supplies to Bouldin Island. As the business grew, new boats were added until the company now operate and own twenty motor boats on the river. This well handled organization not only operate some of the finest launches in use in the Delta country, but own and operate an extensive, modern shipyard, where they have built boats of all descriptions and keep their own fleet in the finest of seagoing condition, ready for all emergencies, their yards covering several acres. During the past two years the Colberg Boat Works have been exceptionally busy. Orders for boats have been numerous, much new machinery has been added to the various departments, new lathes installed, and several additional boats built for the Colberg fleet, among them the Holland, a beautiful craft, sixty-four feet long, with a speed of fifteen miles, for passenger and freight service. The Col- berg Boat Works have also turned out splendid boats for private interests. Among these are the John, a 110 foot twin screw freighter, the Herbert, a power- ful towboat, built for the Zuckerman Merchants Transportation Company. Boats were constructed also for the Stockton Growers' Exchange, produce buyers, doing a big Delta business; the Atlantic Produce Company of Stockton and San Francisco: the I. Akaba Company, wholesalers of Stockton, and others. Mr. Colberg is in the near future contem- plating the construction of a large excursion boat and several large freighters. During the recent war activ-

ities the Colberg yards did contract and emergency work for the Government. Much work is being done for the state in the way of repairs and building of water crafts. The Colberg Motor Boats operate a fleet of powerful passenger and express-freight boats and the patronage extends into all sections of the river country in and out of Stockton, general offices being established and maintained with warehouse and ship- ping facilities in the heart of the business section of Stockton. Regular schedules are maintained and the highest system of efficiency provided patrons of the organization. The Colberg idea throughout all de- partments is modern efficiency-a service of the high- est class. That this objective has been attained and is maintained is best attested by the growing popu- larity of the Colberg boats.

The business is owned by William C. Colberg and Henry J. Colberg, the latter having been in partner- ship with his brother since 1912. After his gradua- tion from the Stanford University he was employed by the Westinghouse Company in the East and later was engineer in the building of the Standard Oil Company's pipe line in California. In his fraternal affiliations he is a Mason and William C. Colberg is a member of the Stockton Lodge of Elks.

The marriage of William C. Colberg united him with Miss Rosamond Gower, a native of Fresno, Cal. Her grandfather, Sewell Gower, was a pioneer of San Joaquin County. Mr. Colberg is ever alert to opportunity, knows the entire Delta country through years of intimate personal connections, keeps pace with the demands of the people and is ever re- sponsive to the call of modern service. His friends know him as a man of genuine worth, and entertain for him a high regard.

LUTHER J. DUBOIS .- Well and popularly known in the business circles of Stockton is the senior partner in the Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works of 111 East Weber Avenue, Stockton. He has practically grown up in the business, his father's family before him conducting the same kind of a business in France. Ten years ago he located in Stockton and became an employee of the Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works and is now sole owner of the establishment. During the ten years that he has been in business in Stockton he has been a public-spirited citizen, working for the welfare of his community. He was born in Belgium, February 4, 1889, and was a babe in arms when his parents came to America and they located in New Jersey, where he grew up and where he received his education. When a young man he removed to Independence, Kans., where he engaged in the dry cleaning business and in order to give better service to his patrons obtained data of his father's family in France, who were engaged in the same line of work, on the effect- ive French system of cleaning and dyeing. On arriv- ing in Stockton ten years ago he found work with the Parisian Dry Cleaners, which was established about twelve years ago by Glen Berup and B. B. Berup and J. D. Ellsworth with a capital of $300 and their first location was in a small building on North California Street with a downtown office at the pres- ent location. Eight years ago Mr. Dubois and Mr. Ellsworth purchased the interests of the Berup broth- ers and three years ago Mr. Dubois became sole owner of the concern and within that time the busi- ness has doubled in volume. Recently a modern

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cleaning and dyeing plant has been constructed on Lower Sacramento Road and Adams Street, fully equipped with the most modern machinery at a cost of $35,000, and it is among the most modern plants on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Dubois has his brother, William M., associated with him in the business as an equal partner. They are members of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners.

The marriage of Mr. Dubois united him with Miss Aila S. Bowles, born in Livermore, Cal .; they have two sons, William and Robert, and the family reside in a beautiful residence in Tuxedo Park. Mr. Dubois belongs to the Morning Star Blue Lodge of Masons, the Eastern Star, the Ben Ali Shrine in Sacramento, the Shrine Patrol in Stockton and the Stockton Lions Club.

JOHN W. DOCKENDORFF .- Numbered among the prominent and successful real estate operators of Stockton is John W. Dockendorff, who stands to- day as one of the foremost representatives of his line of business. A native of Pennsylvania, he was born at Newcastle on September 6, 1876, a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Reed) Dockendorff, the for- mer a native of Maine and the latter of Pennsylvania. The father, Robert Dockendorff, was a contractor and builder and John W. learned the trade under his father, working with him in Pennsylvania, Illinois, eastern Kansas and Indiana. When John W. was nineteen years old his father passed away and for the following two years worked at his trade with other contractors and then located in St. Louis, where he engaged in contracting and building, constructing residences and business blocks; later he settled in Garnett, Kans., and there took a course in architec- ture which enabled him to branch out into larger construction work and his operations covered several counties throughout Kansas, where he erected court houses, bridges, etc. He erected the waterworks plant at Girard and for a short time worked in Chicago; then he again returned to St. Louis for a time. In the spring of 1906 he located in Stockton and continued his building operations, erecting the Wilkes, Pearson-Kuntzen block on Weber Avenue, two annexes to the Moline Plow Company's block, the Flint building, the First Congregational Church at the corner of Hunter and Park streets, one of the finest church buildings in Stockton; the E. B. Stowe Creamery on Weber Avenue and a number of fine residences. In 1912 he entered the real estate busi- ness as an independent operator, dealing in farm lands and city property. Mr. Dockendorff has witnessed many radical changes in the prosperity and develop- ment of Stockton since the time when the Stockton Iron Works were located on California Street be- tween Main Street and Weber Avenue, a coal yard stood on the present site of the Elks' building and the Weber Home addition and the Sherup addition were grain fields.

The marriage of Mr. Dockendorff occurred in St. Louis, July, 1897, and united him with Miss Ida Hanson and they are the parents of three daughters, Mildred, Mrs. G. Reed; Bertha and Gertrude. He is a member of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, the San Joaquin County Real Estate Dealers' Asso- ciation and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Pythias. His interests are thoroughly identified with those of his community and at all times he is ready to lend his aid and co-operation to any movement cal- culated to benefit this section of the country.

LOUIS RUDOLPH BRANDT .- An industrious progressive and prosperous rancher is Louis R. Brandt, a native of Schaumburg-Lippe, Westphalia, Germany, where he was born on August 22, 1846, the son of Frederick and Phillipina (Schwertberger) Brandt-the former a schoolmaster, who taught for nearly forty years in the excellent schools of his native land. The worthy couple had thirteen children, among whom Louis was the eighth in order of birth. Those older than he were: Edward, Bertha, Henry, Otto, Charles, William and Herman; and those younger were: Julius, August, Matilda, Anna and Frederick.

Louis Brandt attended the grammar schools in his native country, and then served a three-year appren- ticeship at the cabinet-making trade, after which he worked as a skilled journeyman at Burkeburg. After- wards he worked in Berlin for eighteen months, and then in Paris for the same length of time. In 1867 he came to Indianapolis, Ind., where he remained from August to December of that year, and then he removed to Washington County, Texas, intending to settle and continue at his trade. There was so little demand for cabinet work, however, that he took up carpentering instead.

In 1868 Mr. Brandt rode across the plains on horse- back, with thirty comrades, by way of Fort Scott, Fort Davis and El Paso, bringing 2500 head of cattle, most of which they sold in El Paso. They then divided and Mr. Brandt and others came on to California. Arriving in San Diego, Mr. Brandt spent just one month in helping to erect the first house built in what was called New San Diego. After that he journeyed north to San Francisco for a visit to his brother Charles, near French Camp, on the San Joaquin River, with whom he formed a partnership for shipping fruit and vegetables, an enterprise in which they continued for seven years. Then Louis Brandt bought a grain ranch of 640 acres, near Clements, in 1877, which he managed for twenty years and then sold. He next bought the ranch of 480 acres he at present owns, two miles to the northwest of Clements, where he engages in dairying. He has eighteen acres of alfalfa and plenty of grain land, and thirty head of milch-cows; and all the improvements on the place he himself has made during the past two decades.

On November 13, 1875, Mr. Brandt was married at Stockton to Miss Anna Bowman, born near the foot of Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa County, Cal., the daugh- ter of John and Jennie Bowman. Her father was a sailor on a schooner plying along the Pacific coast. He came via Panama to California in very early days from Emden, Hanover, Germany. After continuing in coastwise traffic for years, he took up agricultural pursuits near Farmington, in San Joaquin County, and later cultivated land on Roberts Island. Nine children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Brandt, and they also have thirteen grandchildren. Their oldest daughter, Jennie, is Mrs. G. J. Christy, of Clements, and the mother of two children, Carroll and Darrell; Phillipina is dead; Anna is Mrs. H. J. Corell, of Acampo and has six children-Mildred Anita, Naomi Brandt, Calvin Harvey, Florence Made- line, Louis William, and Helen Jane; Matilda is deceased; Rudolph, who assists operating the home farm is married to Miss Dora Wilson and has one child, Shirley Rudolph; Louis Jr., also a rancher near Clements, married Lena Murdock, and they have four children-Harold, Marrietta, Eugene and Louis; Emma lives at home; Bernice is the wife of Jacob Wilson, an orchardist of Wheatland; and George Al-

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1912, was Miss Alma White, a native of Stockton, the daughter of William White, pioneer Southern Pacific engineer, who saw service in the Civil War. Mr. and Mrs. Pope have one son, Robert W.

JOHN H. CLANCY .- A well-known citizen and representative orchardist of the Lodi section of San Joaquin County is John H. Clancy, who has worked his way steadily upward from a humble financial position to one of affluence, and the visible proof of his life of industry in his farm of eighty acres, highly improved with modern equipment. A New Yorker by birth, born at Florence, April 21, 1852, he is a son of Daniel and Mary (Falvey) Clancy, the former a native of County Cork, Ireland, and the latter of Newfoundland. There were eleven chil- dren in the family; John H., Mary, Hannah, Thomas A., Rena, William, Ella, Emma, Norbert, Almira and James. In 1861 the family removed to California and settled at San Pablo. The father was accidently killed when he was fifty-eight years old, but the mother lived to be seventy-two years old. On ac- count of being the eldest of a large family, John H. Clancy was called upon to do manual work at an 'early age. He received a grammar school education, which was later supplemented by a commercial course, graduating from the Pacific Business Col- lege at San Francisco at the age of twenty. In 1875 he went to Santa Clara County and found work on a ranch near Menlo Park, where he remained for two years; then went to Santa Barbara County where he was the superintendent of the 2,000-acre ranch of Ellwood Cooper, for the next nine years. In 1888 he removed to Acampo and superintended the ranch of A. T. Hatch for a year and a half. His next move was to San Juan Capistrano where he super- intended the ranch of John L. Truslow for one year; then he was induced to return to Acampo and assumed the superintendency of the 800-acre ranch of the Buck-Cory Company, devoted to orchard and vineyard, remaining with this company until 1913.

On April 21, 1886 at Goleta, Cal., Mr. Clancy was married to Miss Fannie M. Towne, a native of Pet- aluma, Cal., a daughter of Edward and Fannie Towne. Edward Towne was an early settler of California and engaged in farming for a livelihood. When Mrs. Clancy was six years old her parents removed to Santa Barbara and there she received her education. Mr. and Mrs. Clancy have seven sons; Ellwood, Roy, Cecil, Ellmore, Maurice, Dewey and Hull. In 1905 Mr. Clancy purchased twenty acres of land in Chris- tian Colony adjoining the Buck ranch and the fol- lowing year he added ten acres to his original hold- ings, and from time to time purchased more land until he now owns eighty acres, all of which is de- voted to an orchard of prunes, peaches and almonds. Mr. Clancy served as constable of Acampo for ten consecutive years and was also justice of the peace for four years. Mr. Clancy supports the men and measures of the Republican party and fraternally is a member of Channel City Lodge, I. O. O. F. of Santa Barbara; also Harmony Encampment of Lodi, and Canton Ridgley of Stockton No. 131, F. & A. M. and Woodbridge Eastern Star chapter. Mrs. Clancy is a prominent member and past noble grand of the Rebekahs and past president of the Rebekah Assem- bly of California and also a member of the Eastern Star of Woodbridge. Recently she was the honored

guest at the regular meeting of the Rainbow Past Noble Grands Association, at which time Mrs. Clancy was presented with an appropriate token of the es- teem of the members of the association. She related many interesting reminiscences of her experiences gathered visiting Rebekah lodges throughout the state and also imparted many helpful ideas for the future work of the association.

CHARLES CODY .- As one of the early settlers in the now prosperous and thriving section of San Joaquin County in the vicinity of Bellota, Charles Cody well recalls the transformation which has been brought about in the intervening years, for when he first came to make his home here in 1869, grain fields stretched away on every side, which have been replaced by orchards and vineyards. Mr. Cody has not been an idle witness of the improvements, but he himself has been an active factor in bringing them about, and today is classed among the most enter- prising and prosperous ranchers and poultrymen in his locality. He was born at Placerville, Cal. Octo- ber 18, 1855, the eldest son of Patrick Henry and Caroline (Scott) Cody, natives of New York and Missouri, respectively. Patrick Henry Cody was ap- prenticed as a shoemaker at the time of the Mexican War in 1846 when he ran away to serve with General Scott until the close of the war. In 1852 the four Cody brothers left St. Louis, Mo., with ox teams to cross the plains to California. They settled at Hang- town where they spent a few months prospecting, then James and Charles Cody returned to Missouri, Thomas and Patrick Henry remaining in California.

In 1852 Patrick Henry Cody was married to Miss Caroline Scott who had accompanied her sister, Mrs. Thomas Cody, across the plains to California. Mr. Cody then removed to Carson Creek, near Clarks- ville, Cal., where he engaged in the stock business and became a prominent citizen of El Dorado County; he also shipped milk and dairy products to Carson City and Virginia City, Nev .; he also freighted over the mountains, much of the time driving the teams himself, until 1869. Patrick Henry and his wife were the parents of three sons and two daughters: Charles the subject of this sketch; Lillian became Mrs. T. J. Baldwin and they had three daughters and one son; Latham H. married and had one daughter and one son; James I. married and had one son, and Mary E. became Mrs. B. N. Smallfield and they have one son. In 1869 Mr. Cody located at Bellota, a station on the Calaveras River Road and here he followed farming. He passed away in 1905, his wife surviving him until 1908.

Charles Cody received his education in the district school near his home and at an early age shared the duties of the home ranch and for twenty-five years was identified with his father in the grain and stock business at Bellota. On September 11, 1904, he was married to Miss Mary Sarah Fanning, born at Bellota. They are the parents of three children. Carvell Scott, deceased in infancy; Henry, and Charles C. Mr. Cody, with his brother, conducted a store at Bellota for two years and was also assist- ant postmaster; later he was superintendent of the Linden Creamery for two years. Four years ago he entered the poultry business on his Bellota ranch, where he has erected a modern plant, with a capa- city of 1,000 hens and he is formulating plans for ex-

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tensive additions. He has served on the election board of Bellota for many years and is in close touch with every citizen who takes an active part in the affairs of public interest.

GARIBALDI BROS .- Four years ngo Frank, John and Joseph Garibaldi purchased the grocery stock of Mignacio & Peirano on East Street and Waterloo Road and have since added hardware and notions. By their strict attention to business and courteous treatment of their customers, they have steadily increased their trade until they have all they can attend to properly They are the sons of Henry and Cynthia (Cuneo) Garibaldi, both natives of Amador County, Cal., both the paternal and maternal grandparents being pioneers of the Golden State. Henry Garibaldi owned a large ranch in Amador County and he passed away there in 1921; the mother is still living. Five children were born to them: Joseph was born in 1888, Frank in 1897, and John on November 22, 1900, and there are two daughters, Jennie and Henrietta. The children attended the Milligan district school adjacent to their ranch home in Amador County and the Jackson high school. The Garibaldi brothers still own 360 acres of grain and truck gardening land and some range land of the old home place in Amador County.

Frank Garibaldi entered the service of his country during the World War in September, 1918, and was sent to Reno, Nev., where he was placed in the en- gineering school of the University of Nevada. Both Frank and his brother are unmarried. Joseph Gari- baldi was married in Jackson to Miss Pearl Tanner and they are the parents of four children, Ethel, Hazel, Pearl and Ruth.

HOBART J. COUPER .- The progressive spirit and thorough understanding which Hobart J. Couper has displayed in connection with the development of his orchard and vineyard is bringing him most grati- fying success. He was born in the rural district of Northfield, Minn., on July 24, 1867 and when but a small child was taken by his parents to Faribault County, Minn., where they settled near Blue Earth, where he grew to manhood and followed stockraising and farming for eight years. In 1897 he came to Cal- ifornia and located in Lodi; his parents followed him in the fall of that year and spent their last years in Lodi. Mr. Couper purchased twenty acres of the Woodruff ranch in the Lafayette district west of Lodi; four acres were in young Tokay vineyard and he immediately planted twelve acres to orchard and vines (making sixteen acres under cultivation); on the remaining four acres he built his residence and other buildings and resided there until 1920, when he sold out and removed into the city of Lodi where he has an attractive residence on West Elm Street. Be- lieving in the future prosperity of the Lafayette district, he purchased forty acres which he planted to Tokay grapes in 1901; he added ten acres in 1908, which he planted to peaches and an additional pur- chase of fifty acres in 1913, thirty of which he planted to Tokays and the remainder to alfalfa. All of his real estate holdings are in section eight and nine of the Lafayette district, adjacent to the city of Lodi. His development work has all been constructive and has added greatly to the progress and prosperity of the county and state.

Mr. Couper's marriage united him with Miss Anna B. Stokes, a native of Minnesota and they have had four children in their family: Henry E., their oldest son, passed away in Lodi at the age of twenty-one; Lillian, Sidney and Charles. Mr. Couper is an ac- tive member of the San Joaquin County Table Grape Growers' Association and served on its board of directors soon after its organization. He was one of the organizers of the Lodi Episcopal Church and as- sisted in the erection of the building and at the pres- ent time is the warden of the church.

JOHN C. TAISEN-Prominent among the suc- cessful business men of Stockton is John C. Taisen, who, with his brother, Walter H. Taisen, conducts the Taisen Dyeing and Cleaning Works at 422 North Aurora Street. They are sons of John P. and Margaret (Eisenhauer) Taisen, the former a native of Denmark and the latter of Peoria, Ill. Grand- father Adam Eisenhauer crossed the plains to Cali- fornia in 1860, bringing his family; he was a mer- chant, and was also in the express business in San Francisco, continuing in business until his death. His daughter Margaret even as a child displayed unusual capability, and when crossing the plains with her parents from Peoria, Ill., she drove a team most of the way, doing her share bravely each day to make their journey a success. Arriving in Cali- fornia, they stopped a short time in Sonoma but soon located in San Francisco where Margaret completed her education in the public schools and there she met and married Captain John P. Taisen, a union that proved a very happy one. She has a remark- able memory and it is indeed interesting to hear her relate the incidents of their trip across the plains as well as their early experiences in California. She now makes her home in Stockton with her children, who tenderly care for her.

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History of San Joaquin County, California : with biographical sketches of leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 115

Author: Tinkham, George H. (George Henry), b. 1849 Publication date: 1923 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1660

Author: Tinkham, George H. (George Henry), b. 1849
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1660