San Joaquin County Biographies
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JACOB GATZERT
A progressive business man of Lodi, who serves the public with delicious bread and pastry, is Jacob Gatzert, the enterprising proprietor of the Lodi Home Bakery, located at 41 South Sacramento Street. He was born in the Province of Hesse, near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, on August 28, 1880, and there received his schooling. At the age of fourteen he began an apprenticeship to learn the trade of baker and became thoroughly trained for the trade he had selected for his life's work. He worked at his trade for three years in Germany, at the end of which time he concluded to cast his lot in the land of greater opportunities and at the age of twenty-three came to America, then to California in 1903, going direct to Sausalito, Marin County, where he had a brother in the bakery business. For the following three years he worked with him and in 1906 located in Lodi, at that time a small town. He purchased a half-interest in the Home Bakery from Joe Bartke and the partnership continued for two years and then he purchased his partner's interest and conducted the business as sole owner; his first shop was on Pine Street and was very small, his average output of bread being 300 loaves per day. In 1909 he bought the business block located at No. 41 South Sacramento Street and moved his bakery to this location; a brick oven was installed and as his business grew he purchased more space until his frontage is thirty-four feet and the latest improved machinery has been installed. His output of bread at the present time is 2,000 loaves per day; he ships his products to the extreme northern part of the county, besides supplying the local trade. He has installed modern equipment for bread making; the flour goes from the sifter to the mixer, then to the portable bins where the dough is weighed, then to the molding machine, which makes it into uniform loaves; then to the raising racks, then to the ovens, then to the cooling trays, then wrapped in oiled paper ready for sale. Mr. Gatzert is a member of the Stockton Bakers' Association. He owns a half-interest in a building on Elm Avenue, where for three years he conducted the Tokay Theater.
The marriage of Mr. Gatzert united him with Miss Malvina Bechtold, a native of South Dakota, and they are the parents of two children, Alfred and Clifford, both natives of Lodi. Fraternally Mr. Gatzert is a member of Lodi Lodge No. 256, F. & A.M., and of Stockton Chapter No. 28, R.A.M. He has always been progressive in his ideas, and has proven his loyalty to the city of his adoption by supporting every measure for the welfare of the community.
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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