San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/6/2009
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 gratifying 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 California 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. Believing 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 purchase 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 active 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 assisted in the erection of the building and at the present time is the warden of the church.
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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