San Joaquin County Biographies
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EMERSON B. HERRICK
One of the best-known and most popular citizens of the Lodi section of San Joaquin County is Emerson B. Herrick, who on May 16, 1922, was appointed postmaster of this thriving city. He is endowed with the talents which make for leadership among men, and his executive ability and clear-headedness make him a valuable incumbent of the office of postmaster, in which he gives universal satisfaction. He was born in Jackson, Amador County, Cal., June 30, 1894, a son of Dr. Charles A. and Lilly Virginia (Robertson) Herrick. Charles A. Herrick was born in Arcola, Humboldt County, Cal. Grandfather Isaiah Herrick left his native state of Maine in 1855 and crossed the plains by ox-team train to California. Arriving in California, he went to ranching and in time became an extensive land owner in Humboldt County. The mother of Emerson Herrick was born in San Andreas, Calaveras County, California. Her father, Elisha Bryant Robertson, was a planter in Tennessee, and in 1852 came around the Horn to California and settled at Copperopolis, where he mined for gold and was fairly successful in placer mining. He married Miss Lucy Sherman, who came via Panama to California. Elisha Robertson was one of the first graduates of the Toland Hall, a college of medicine in San Francisco. He spent many years practicing medicine among the Indians of Amador and Calaveras Counties, and learned their language and customs. No call for a physician ever went unheeded by him. Dr. Charles A. Herrick and his good wife reside in San Francisco, where he has a lucrative dental practice. He has been secretary of the state board of dental examiners since 1901.
Emerson B. Herrick was reared and received his early education in Jackson, after which he moved with his parents to San Francisco. He then entered the Lowell high school, and after his graduation entered the agricultural department of the University of California, graduating in 1917 with the B.S. degree. During the late war, Mr. Herrick was placed in the United States Geological Survey, Western Department, including the territory west from Colorado and New Mexico to the Pacific Coast. The work of this survey was to reclassify lands in the public domain according to soil and vegetation. Completing this work, he removed to Lodi in November, 1918, where he took charge, as field manager for the Alameda Sugar Company, of their entire acreage of 1,600 acres in the Lodi section, devoted to raising beets, etc. Mr. Herrick remained in charge for one year, and then leased a vineyard of fifty acres seven miles northwest of Lodi, and also 150 acres of grain land, which he farmed for a year. In 1921 he was with the Tracy-Waldron Fruit Company, and one season was spent with the Pacific Fruit Exchange at Lodi. He then purchased an eighteen-acre vineyard on the Terminus road, where he has installed a five-inch pump with a ten-horse-power motor which affords ample irrigation for the entire acreage.
On May 1, 1918, at Santa Rosa, Cal., Mr. Herrick was married to Miss Adah Smith, a native of that city, and a daughter of J.C. and Mae (Gibson) Smith, natives of Sonoma County and Calaveras County, respectively. Mr. Smith is serving his third term as county assessor of Sonoma County, and for fourteen years preceding he was deputy assessor of the same county. Mr. and Mrs. Herrick have two children, Adah Virginia and Robert Emerson. Mr. Herrick is a Republican in politics; and fraternally, he was made a Mason in Lodi Lodge, No. 256, F. & A.M., and is also a member of the Eastern Star of Lodi. He is the president of the Lodi Lions Club and a director of the San Joaquin County branch of the Federation of American Farmers. Mrs. Herrick is a member of the Eastern Star. Both she and her husband are members of the Episcopal Church in 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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