San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 2/8/2010
ALPHEUS M. HILL
For the past quarter of a century Alpheus M. Hill has been a resident of California and for the past thirteen years has lived on his home place on South School Street just outside of the city limits of Lodi, which consists of two acres. He was born in Kent County, Mich., on June 22, 1862, a son of Albert C. Hill, a general farmer in Michigan. Our subject had the misfortune to lose his mother when he was two weeks old and he was one of five children, the others being, Herbert Henry, Ada, deceased, Ida May and Mattie D. The family finally settled in Shiawassee County, Mich., and what little education our subject received was obtained in the winter months in the district schools of that county. He assisted his father in the cultivation and development of his farm until he was twenty-five years old, when in 1888 he came to California. He settled in San Luis Obispo County about twenty miles east of Paso Robles, where he took up a homestead and a preemption, proving up on a half-section of Government land. Here he engaged in stockraising and farming for eight years, when he sold out and removed to San Joaquin County. About thirteen years ago he purchased his present home place of two acres on South School Street, on which he built a good residence. About the same time he and a partner bought thirty acres of bare land on Walnut Avenue one and a half miles southwest of Lodi, and this they set to vineyard; one year later his partner sold his interest and Mr. Hill became owner of the entire tract but he now has eight acres, which is in twenty-two-year-old Tokay grapes, there also being a good irrigating plant on the place, which insures a good crop of fine fruit each season.
On December 19, 1900, at Lodi, Mr. Hill was married to Miss Jessie Ray Chappell, a native daughter, born in Lodi, and a daughter of Henry and Salinda A. Chappell. Henry Chappell came to California in 1852 and for a short time engaged in mining, then farmed in the Lodi section, and Mrs. Hill received her education in the Salem school at Lodi and spent one year in the Lodi high school. Fraternally Mr. Hill is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World of Lodi, and in politics is a Republican. When he located here there were but two places on the street, grain fields surrounded the town and South School Street had just been opened.
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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