San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 9/29/2009
FRANK F. ATHEARN
A very progressive and successful ranch owner is Frank F. Athearn, who has some 460 choice acres about one-half mile north and one-half mile east of Clements, in which town he was born on July 5, 1873, the son of Lucien and E.N. (Putnam) Athearn, both representatives of well-known pioneer families. The father, Lucien Athearn, was a native of Indiana, and came across the wide plains to the West in very early days, while the maternal grandfather came around the Horn. Lucien Athearn went inland to the mines, and then settled near the present location of Clements. He acquired about two sections of land on the river, and in time became an extensive grain rancher. He leased out some of his river-bottom land, and there Chinamen grew hops. His father was Prince A. Athearn, and when the first schoolhouse in this section was built, in part on his land, it was named in honor of him the Athearn school. Four children made up the family of Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Athearn: Clements, Frank F., and W.P. Athearn, and Walter, deceased. Lucien Athearn attained his seventy-seventh year, and his devoted wife was seventy years of age when she died.
When Frank Athearn was seventeen years of age he left home and began to make his own way. Since then he has traveled through Nevada and California, working in mines and doing prospecting. In 1905 he came back to Clements and started ranching. He has 140 acres of the old home place, and also 320 acres about three miles to the south of Clements. He raises hogs and poultry and ships eggs to the market, having about 400 chickens, twenty-five head of sheep and twenty lambs, 100 head of hogs, and eighty head of old and young cattle. In his agricultural enterprises Mr. Athearn has a partner, Barre E. Gersbacker, living with him. He takes a live interest in the political questions of the day, and endeavors to do his duty as a citizen.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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