San Joaquin County Biographies
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FRENZ W. HUCK
One of the well known and respected citizens of San Joaquin County is Frenz W. Huck, whose life history furnishes a good example of what may be accomplished through determined purpose and well directed effort. His earliest recollections are of farm life and since seventeen years of age he has been prominently identified with farming interests, conducting his father's ranch near Tracy at that early age. A native son of California, he was born on his father's ranch near Tracy, June 20, 1872, the only son of Frenz and Margaretta (Warch) Huck, both pioneers of this county, who settled in the New Jerusalem district about 1868. The father, a native of Germany, was a butcher by trade until coming to California, when he went into the mines in Tuolumne County; later he settled on a ranch of 640 acres in San Joaquin County, eight miles southwest of Tracy on the Vernalis Road. The mother came to California alone and located at San Francisco where she met and married Mr. Huck in 1862, and they were the parents of the following children: Mrs. Eva Schmidt, Mrs. Caroline Jepsen, and Mrs. Margaretta Schmidt, Frenz W. of this sketch, and Mrs. William H. Pope, whose sketch is also found in this work. The father passed away at Tracy April 9, 1904, the mother surviving him until December, 1906.
Frenz W. Huck was reared and received his schooling in the New Jerusalem school district and at seventeen he was bearing the brunt of the management of his father's extensive grain ranch, and three years later was farming the ranch on shares. In those early days in the development of San Joaquin County, he sold grain as cheap as fifty cents per sack, but in spite of the ups and downs, he has been successful and upon the foundation of unflagging industry he has builded his present prosperity.
The marriage of Mr. Huck united him with Miss Anna Maria Thoming, born in San Joaquin County, a daughter of George and Lena (Mashoff) Thoming, both natives of Germany, as well as pioneers of the New Jerusalem district of San Joaquin County, having settled there in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Huck are the parents of three children: Frances attends the West Side Union high school, Lester and Lao are students in the grammar school. For the past twelve years Mr. Huck has served as school trustee of the New Jerusalem school district and fraternally is a member of Sumner Lodge I.O.O.F. No. 177, of Tracy; also a member of the Tracy Parlor N.S.G.W., while Mrs. Huck is a member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, and they are members of the Lutheran Church at Tracy.
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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