San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 12/2/2009
ANDREW G. ERICKSON
Among the attractive and enterprising business firms of Stockton is the Gold Medal Creamery located at 31 South California Street, owned and operated by Andrew G. Erickson. He was born on a farm in McPherson County, Kan., on February 20, 1890, was taken by his parents to Victoria, Texas, where the father, also named Andrew Erickson, passed away. The family remained there until our subject was eleven years of age, then the mother and nine children came to California in 1901, settling in Stockton.
The education of Andrew G. Erickson was obtained in the public schools of Stockton, his business training starting when he was employed by the San Joaquin Creamery and the Stockton Creamery, where he learned butter making; he then took a course along the same line of work at the University of California farm at Davis, Cal.; then for five years he was in charge of butter-making for the Oakdale Creamery in Oakdale, Stanislaus County. In 1918, in company with his brother, Arthur L., the Gold Medal Creamery was purchased, which was at that time a very small business, 200 pounds of butter was made daily in the window of the factory, now 1,500 pounds is the daily output of this factory, a remarkable growth in four years. In May, 1921, Mr. Erickson purchased the interest of his brother, who is now the proprietor of the Paramount Creamery at Turlock, Cal. Mr. Erickson's store space has been doubled and modern machinery installed. His Gold Medal brand of butter has become very popular, three-fourths of the leading hotels and restaurants in the city using it. He buys cream from the leading dairies in the county, and it is pasteurized, made into butter, and sold throughout the city. Mr. Erickson has made a scientific study along the line of butter-making and other milk products and is considered one of the best informed men in the county on the subject, and is at the present time one of the largest butter makers in the city.
The marriage of Mr. Erickson united him with Miss Bessie Lenfesty, a native of Calaveras County, Cal., and they are the parents of three daughters, Ernestine, Phyllis and Charlotte. Fraternally he is a member of Truth Lodge of Odd Fellows.
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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