San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/19/2009
CARL C. BUSCH
A progressive citizen of the Ripon section of San Joaquin County, is Carl C. Busch, who is successfully combining the development of a forty-acre ranch with contracting and building activities. His excellent fruit and dairy ranch west of Ripon demonstrates his characteristics of thoroughness and ability which he has displayed in his career. He was born near Copenhagen, Denmark, on his father's farm, on June 4, 1872, and attended the public school in the neighborhood until he was fourteen years old. At this age he left school to work on the home farm and two years later, when he was sixteen, he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, in which, from the beginning, he showed particular ability and aptitude for the trade and became a very excellent workman. He remained in Denmark until he was thirty-two years old, then started on a trip to New Zealand on the S.S. Oroya, the voyage consuming fifty-six days. His stay in New Zealand covered a period of two and a half years, during which time he was occupied at his trade of carpenter.
In May, 1907, Mr. Busch arrived in San Francisco and for the following two years he worked at carpentering in the Bay region, meeting with fair success. Concluding to combine his knowledge of agriculture with his trade, he removed to San Joaquin County and settled at Ripon, where he bought his present home place of forty acres five miles west of Ripon, which he has made into a productive fruit, alfalfa and dairy ranch. During his twelve years' residence in San Joaquin County, Mr. Busch has erected the Van Allen district school building, the San Joaquin school building and numerous country and town residences in the Ripon section of the county. He is now erecting the gymnasium for the Ripon Union high school and his excellent workmanship bespeaks for him continued prosperity. His brother, Walter Busch, is married and has a family; he is a rancher three and a half miles west of Ripon where he located in 1919. Both brothers are substantial and progressive citizens and give an active support to all development measures. Mr. Busch became a U.S. citizen in 1914 at Stockton, and since that time has voted the Democratic ticket. Fraternally he is a member of Mt. Horeb Lodge, I.O.O.F.
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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