San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 12/11/2009
DAVID FINKBOHNER
A farmer and stockraiser, who is also a native son of San Joaquin County, is David Finkbohner, who for the past fifteen years has been in partnership with his brother in conducting a 260-acre grain and stock ranch situated seven miles northwest of Stockton on Telegraph Road. He was born in Stockton, July 10, 1873, a son of Jacob and Barbara (Kuhn) Finkbohner. His parents were born in Germany, married in the East, and crossed the plains to California. They were early settlers of San Joaquin County, and their nine children, six of whom are living, were as follows: George, residing in Stockton; Barbara, of Oakland; Charles, of Stockton; Sophia Estelle, of Santa Cruz; Frank and Benjamin, both deceased; Fred, in Oakland; William, deceased; and David, of this sketch.
David Finkbohner was a young lad when his parents died, and he was reared by an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kuhn, in Salt Springs Valley, Calaveras County, where he attended school. At seventeen years of age he began to make his own way, working for wages on various ranches throughout California until 1907, when he returned to San Joaquin County and went into partnership with his brother in ranching. They are engaged in raising grain and stock, and also have a Tokay vineyard on the ranch.
On July 13, 1905, at Jamestown, Cal., Mr. Finkbohner was married to Mrs. Ella (Gann) Hendsch, a native of Salt Spring Valley, Calaveras County, and a daughter of Andrew Jackson and Frances Ellen (Rountree) Gann, the former a native of Tennessee, who came across the plains with ox teams in 1860, and joined his two brothers, who had previously settled in California. Jack Gann, as he was known, first settled at Farmington, where he engaged in the stock business. He moved to Calaveras about 1874. Mrs. Finkbohner has one sister, Emma, now Mrs. August May, residing at Angels Camp. The mother was born in Wisconsin and passed away at the age of thirty-six. Subsequently, Mr. Gann was married to Miss Ida Bence, by whom he had four children: William, Edith, Bell (Mrs. Charles Pope, residing in Turlock), and May, deceased at the age of fifteen years. Jack Gann passed away at the age of sixty-two, while his widow is still living at 303 East Arcade Street, Stockton. By her former marriage, Mrs. Finkbohner had one son, Henry Hendsch, who resides in Stockton. Mr. and Mrs. Finkbohner are the parents of two children, Frank Edmund and Doris. Mr. Finkbohner, while residing in Calaveras County, was school trustee of the Hodson school for many years, and he is now serving as one of the directors of the Elkhorn school district.
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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