San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 12/6/2009
FRANK A. FALLMAN
One of the pioneer families of California is that which now finds a representative in San Joaquin County in Frank A. Fallman who, for the past twenty-six years has been active in the development of Delta farms, being connected all those years with the dredgers that are constantly at work reclaiming the delta lands of the county. A native Californian, he was born at Rio Vista, Cal., August 14, 1869, a son of Louis Fallman, a native of Germany, who came to California via Panama in 1857, where for many years he was engaged in blacksmithing on Grand Island.
Frank A. Fallman was reared and educated at Rio Vista and learned the trade of blacksmith with his father. At eighteen years of age he shipped on a vessel to Alaska hunting for seals and on returning to California he went into business for himself on Grand Island. In 1893 he took a second seal hunting trip to Japan and Alaska, and upon returning to California, he began work on the Grand Island dredge and later was placed in charge of same, remaining for seven years; then he went to Roberts Island in charge of the dredger, which occupied him three years. In March, 1903, he entered the employ of L.A. Phillips, where he has remained up to the present time. He has taken an active part in reclaiming the delta country lands and was with John Hurd in the first reclaiming of Union Island. The dredging outfit of which he is now in charge, consists of four large clam dredgers, two large clam dredgers, one steam shovel, several large tow boats, one steamer and one electric pump, and in the busiest season of the year has charge of seventy-five men.
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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