San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/4/2009
JOSEPH M. CORSON
A well-known citizen of the Lodi vicinity is Joseph M. Corson, who has had his permanent home in California since 1876. He resides with his family on his well-improved ranch of forty-five acres, five and a half miles southwest of Lodi in the Henderson school district. A New Englander by birth, having been born in Somerset County, Maine, October 19, 1859, he is a son of Lysander and Susan C. (Morrison) Corson, both parents being born and reared in Maine. Great-great-grandfather Morrison was a soldier in the War of 1812. Lysander Corson was a farmer in New England and reared a family of seven children: Charles; May, Mrs. F.R. Clarke, resides in Stockton; Joseph M. is the subject of this sketch; Augustus resides in Lodi; Addie, Mrs. Edding Holt, resides in Maine; Belle, Mrs. Ulysses Holt, also resides in Maine; Henry Lysander is an attorney in San Francisco. The mother passed away in Maine in 1881.
Joseph M. attended grammar school in Somerset County and finished with a year's business course after coming to Stockton. He was fifteen years of age when he began to work for himself, working two years in a sawmill, then for a year in the timber of Moosehead Lake, Maine. In 1876 he came to California where he worked on farms, then rented a farm near Linden containing 400 acres and for eighteen years he engaged in grain and stock raising to good advantage; he then removed to a ranch seven miles northwest of Lodi on the Walnut Grove Road and bought a forty-acre ranch, twenty acres of which was in vineyard and the balance used for grain. Here he farmed for seven years, when he sold it and went to the Naglee ranch northwest of Tracy and there farmed 1,000 acres to grain. He then moved to Lodi and made that his home for a time; then purchased a twenty-two acre vineyard in the Christian Colony which he held for two years and then sold and with the proceeds purchased his present ranch of forty-five acres, twenty acres of which is in vineyard; alfalfa is raised on the balance, the ranch being irrigated by a pumping plant.
The marriage of Mr. Corson occurred on October 29, 1887, in Stockton and united him with Miss Mary A. Loveland, born on her father's ranch in San Joaquin County, a daughter of D.H. and Rachel L. (McClanahan) Loveland. Her father crossed the plains to California with an ox-train in 1852, the journey consuming six months. He worked for a time in a warehouse in San Francisco and in 1854 came to the San Joaquin County where he purchased two ranches, one of 160 acres and the other of 320 acres, four miles east of Waterloo; this he farmed to grain. The mother came to California from Wisconsin a few years later and their marriage occurred in San Joaquin County and they were the parents of four children: Mrs. Corson; Willard, deceased; Mrs. Edna Benjamin; and Leta, deceased. The father lived to be seventy-four years old and the mother was forty-two when she passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Corson are the parents of one son, Cullen D. In politics Mr. Corson is not restricted by any party lines, but votes for the candidate he considers best fitted for the office. Fraternally he is a member and past master of the Valley Lodge of Masons at Linden and both he and Mrs. Corson are members of the Woodbridge Eastern Star Chapter. Mr. Corson has served as a school trustee of the Henderson district and was a deputy county assessor under Cy Moreing for the Thornton and Lafayette districts.
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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