San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/8/2009
JOSEPH P. CUNDELL
A business man of practical and progressive ideas, the late Joseph P. Cundell was well equipped by years of experience in the dairy business and took an active interest along these lines in San Joaquin County as the manager of the Stockton Dairy Product Distributing Company, a branch of the California Central Creamery Company. He was born in Butler County, Kans., on March 24, 1885, on his father's farm, where he remained until he was eighteen years of age; then he found employment with R.H. Hazlett of Eldorado, Kans., a large breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle; after three years he removed to Independence, Mo., and entered the employ of Gudgell & Simpson, the leading breeders of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in the United States, and was in charge of 1,000 head of cattle. In 1911, he removed to Honolulu and became the manager for an 80,000-acre cattle and sheep ranch. In 1915, he located in San Joaquin County and purchased fifty acres of the old Salmon ranch on the French Camp Road near Stockton. This he developed into a first-class dairy and alfalfa ranch, having a herd of thirty milch cows. He was a member of the advisory committee of the Milk Producers Association of Central California, Stockton branch, and in the summer of 1921 was made manager of the local Stockton branch, established some four years ago. As a member of the executive committee of the dairy department of the San Joaquin County Farm Bureau. Mr. Cundell contributed progressive plans and ideas that are the products of thorough study and experience, and he is considered an authority on the subject of milk products, and dairy management.
Mr. Cundell's marriage united him with Miss Ethel Higinbotham, a native of Kansas, and they were the parents of four children: Lois and Ruth are twins, born in Honolulu; Robert and Karma are native Californians. Fraternally he was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge No. 181, of Lenora, Kans. Mr. Cundell passed away on August 26, 1922, at the Dameron Hospital in Stockton and was buried in Park View Cemetery.
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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