San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/23/2009
JOHN A. DUPLISEA
A farmer and vineyardist living at Lodi, San Joaquin County, is John A. Duplisea, who has been a public-spirited citizen of this section of the state since 1908. He was born in Princetown, Maine, on January 20, 1863, a son of A.J. and Hannah (Byers) Duplisea. The father was a carriagemaker by trade, and was the parent of eleven children, eight of whom are living, John A. being the only one residing in California. Their names are as follows: Tillie, Eileen, Elsie, John A. (of this sketch), Edward W., Frank, Anabelle, Ada, Maude, June and Lou. The father is still living at the age of ninety years. The mother passed away at the age of sixty-eight.
John A. Duplisea received his education in the public schools of his native town, and when he was eighteen years old selected the painter's trade as an occupation. After following his trade at Princetown and various places in New England, he went to Montana and engaged in sheep raising in Dawson County, where he had as many as 5,000 head in one flock, ranging them on government and railroad land. The sheep business occupied him four years. Returning to his native state he again took up his trade and worked for four years. He then returned to Montana, and after living there eight years went to New Brunswick, Canada, where he spent one winter.
The marriage of Mr. Duplisea was solemnized in New Brunswick in 1905, when he was united with Miss Letitia Anderson, a native of that place and a daughter of Charles and Elenor Anderson. Her father was a millwright by trade. Mrs. Duplisea was educated in the schools of New Brunswick. There were five children in the family: Anna, Letitia, Charles, George and Hannah. Her father lived to be seventy-six, and her mother seventy-two years old. In 1908 Mr. and Mrs. Duplisea left New Brunswick for California, and settled in Lodi, where they purchased fifteen acres, a Tokay vineyard, about one-half mile east of Lodi on the traction line. Among the improvements that Mr. Duplisea has put on his home place is an electric pumping plant for irrigating his ranch.
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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