San Joaquin County Biographies
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HARVEY A. GOODMAN
The farming interests of San Joaquin County find a worthy representative in Harvey A. Goodman, who makes his home on his eighteen-acre vineyard on the Quimby Road in the Lodi section of the county. His has been a successful career and one which indicates the opportunities that are open to young men of determination, ambition and diligence. He was born at Sycamore, Ill., on June 1, 1852, a son of Harry and Lizzette (Brown) Goodman, and is one of two children, the other being a sister, Francilia. When our subject was a small lad of two years, the family removed to Chatfield, Minn., and here his father homesteaded eighty acres of land; later he purchased thirty-five acres in the same vicinity and engaged in farming.
Harvey A. Goodman received his education in the grammar and high school of Chatfield, Minn., and on Christmas Eve, 1874, was married to Miss Jennie A. Robinson, a native of the same part of Illinois as her husband, and a daughter of Joseph Robinson, a farmer who moved to Olmsted County, Minn., where he lived a few years, then moved to Anoka, the same state, where he passed away. Mrs. Goodman's mother died in California at the age of ninety-four years. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Goodman purchased a 120-acre farm and engaged in grain raising for three years, then disposed of the farm at a good profit. He then removed to Grand Forks, N.D., where he homesteaded a tract of land and later took up a timber claim and still later added a quarter section to what he already had, by purchase; this land he farmed for twenty years, from 1874 until 1895, when he sold out and removed to Lodi, Cal. He still owns a timber claim in Aitkin County, Minn., consisting of eighty acres.
Upon settling at Lodi, Mr. Goodman bought eighteen acres of grain land and immediately set about to improve it, planting thirteen acres to vineyard, the vines being now twelve years old, and five acres devoted to orchard, alfalfa and building space; he also erected a comfortable residence and has installed a pumping plant. One acre of the orchard is in full-bearing cherries and one acre in young trees. Mr. and Mrs. Goodman are the parents of four children: Minerva, a practicing physician at Stockton; Etta; Roy A., owner and proprietor of Goodman's Groceteria at Lodi, and Alice, Mrs. Burnett, of Stockton. Mr. Goodman and a daughter jointly own ten acres just off of Kettleman Lane one mile south of Lodi; seven and one-half acres is in Tokay grapes and the balance Empress, all full bearing. While residing in Dakota, Mr. Goodman was supervisor of Inkster township and for three years was township assessor and three years township treasurer. Politically he is a Republican and fraternally a member of the Foresters of America, and with his family is a member of the Congregational Church of Lodi.
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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