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JACOB G. HANDEL
Although a native of Russia, where he was born January 20, 1872, Jacob G. Handel has been a resident of the United States since his second year, having come to this country with his parents in 1874. They were pioneers of Hutchinson County, S.D., helping to settle the country there, and Jacob was reared on those bare prairies, thirty miles from Yankton, where human habitations were few and far between. As a boy he helped his father on the home farm, starting when very young to work in the harvest fields, and later he engaged in farming on his own account on 160 acres near Menno, S.D.
In 1899 Mr. Handel came to California and located at Lodi. He had saved some of his earnings and seeing the possibilities of the business future of this city he bought eleven acres in the north end of town on Sacramento Street, west of the railroad, this tract then being in alfalfa and orchard. This district has now become quite an industrial center and Mr. Handel has sold lots to the Superior Manufacturing Company, the Producers Fruit Company and the California Almond Growers Association, and they have erected their warehouses and manufacturing plants on the property. A number of residences have also been built there, including the fine new home of Mr. Handel, and he still has twenty-one lots left that are steadily increasing in value.
An active factor in the upbuilding and real estate development of Lodi, Mr. Handel is the owner of the modern two-story business block occupied by the Lodi Hardware Company, which he built in partnership with J.G. Hieb, and in company with J.G. and John W. Heib, he built and owns the White Front Store building, a modern, two-story brick block on Elm Avenue, which has since been sold. He is also the owner of a ten-acre vineyard in full bearing, five miles southeast of Lodi, from which he received $3,300 in 1920, and has a fourteen-acre alfalfa ranch two and a half miles east of Lodi, a valuable property. For eight years Mr. Handel conducted a hardware business in Lodi, but he disposed of it some time ago and now his time is fully occupied in looking after his varied interests in town and country. In 1923 he bought 100 acres near Livingston, Merced County, which he is improving.
Mr. Handel's marriage united him with Miss Magdalina Hieb, a native of South Dakota, and they are the parents of seven children: Lea is Mrs. Walter Thompson, and the mother of two children; Leonhart, Wilhelmina, Mrs. Bolding, Theodore, Reinholdt, Lillie, and Benjamin. A successful self-made man, Mr. Handel ranks high among the upbuilders of Lodi, where for more than twenty years he has been identified with the community. He is a stockholder in the Superior Manufacturing Company, and active in the Salem Reformed Church, where he was superintendent of the Sunday school and a former member of the church choir.
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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