San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 12/9/2009
C.H. FINK
Interesting as a successful, retired vineyardist, C.H. Fink, of 401 West Walnut Street, Lodi, is able to look back upon an honorable association not only with one of the most important industries in the Golden State, which he himself did so much to forward, but with one of the most promising of California towns. He was born in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, on July 25, 1859, and on the 28th of May, 1873, he with his parents left for California.
The family located in Stanislaus County, near Crow's Landing, and there the father and five sons became large land-owners and also extensive growers of grain, farming together as many as 2,400 acres, and continuing in this partnership for thirty-three years, all of the sons being still living, and most of them still farming in Stanislaus County. This land which Mr. Fink farmed was bought for ten dollars an acre, and it is now worth $300 per acre. In 1888, barley sold for fifty-four cents per bushel, and wheat at eighty-five cents, and this will afford a clue as to the farmers' rewards in some years.
Tired of farming a large ranch, however, C.H. Fink and his younger brother, in the fall of 1905, came to Lodi and bought a ranch of fifty-six acres. They planted thirty acres to Tokays, and later four acres to cherries and alfalfa. Their first crop was valued at $1,000, and their ranch cost them $9,000, or about $160 per acre. This they farmed until December 17, 1920, when they sold it at a handsome profit and retired. They had made their home upon the ranch, and naturally during their residence there had greatly improved the property, in part by the introduction of water from the Lodi District Pumping Plant, and partly by the erection of houses, etc. Mr. Fink was married at Crow's Landing to Miss Emma Hirsch, born in Wisconsin, and she died at Lodi, May 13, 1907. They had three children, Della and Stella, twin sisters, and Vernon. His second marriage, in Lodi, united him with Miss Esther M. Hirsch, a native of Wisconsin. The family attend the Seventh Day Adventist Church, of which Mr. Fink has been a member for thirty-three years, in excellent standing. Mr. and Mrs. Fink and their family have always enjoyed the esteem of a wide circle of devoted friends, and the confidence of business and financial leaders who have been familiar with their dependable methods, and their high standards of patriotic citizenship.
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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