San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 2/22/2010
HENRY KAISER
A prominent rancher and a pioneer of San Joaquin County, Henry Kaiser is now living retired from active business cares, but still owns a fine ranch of 560 acres southeast of Stockton, on which is produced large quantities of grain; in addition he owns his residence at 1443 South San Joaquin Street, Stockton, where he resides with his family. He was born near Salt Lake City, Utah, March 7, 1855, while his parents were en route from Cincinnati, Ohio, to California in an ox-team train, but Mr. Kaiser is pleased to claim California as his native state. He is the eldest son of a family of fifteen children born to Valentine and Catherine Kaiser, both natives of Germany, but reared in Ohio.
When the Kaiser family arrived in California in 1855, they located near San Jose, where they farmed for a couple of years, then sold out and moved to a wooded tract of land ten miles southeast of Stockton, where the home was established and which is still the home of the mother, highly honored and respected, now eighty-eight years old. Valentine Kaiser passed away at the old home place in 1914 at the age of eighty-seven years. Henry Kaiser attended the district school in the neighborhood of his home and was reared on the farm and as soon as he was old enough assumed his share of the work at home. In 1881 Mr. Kaiser bought his first land and by subsequent purchases has added to the original purchase until he now has 560 acres on which is raised large quantities of wheat and hay, which has been produced for the past forty years on this ranch.
In Stockton, September 30, 1901, occurred the marriage of Mr. Kaiser and Miss Ella Sorensen, who was born in Nephi, Utah, a daughter of Fred and Caroline E. (Buntzen) Sorensen, natives of Denmark and Oldenburg, Germany, respectively, who emigrating to the United States located first in Utah, where Mr. Sorensen was a farmer for twenty years, and then brought his family to Stockton in 1897. The father has passed to the great beyond and the mother now makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Kaiser who look after her comfort and welfare. They have been blessed with one son, Edmon V. In 1917 the family removed to Stockton and about one year ago Mr. Kaiser purchased his present residence at 1443 South San Joaquin Street. Besides his residence, Mr. Kaiser owns other valuable real estate in Stockton, which he purchased a number of years ago, realizing that Stockton would eventually become a large and prosperous commercial center. His business career has been marked with upright dealing, and the fact that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from boyhood is an indication that his has been an upright, active and honorable life.
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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