San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 2/23/2010
CHARLES E. KELLY
Among the enterprising stock and dairy farmers of the Ripon district of San Joaquin County is Charles E. Kelly, who has made a success of his undertaking which places him among the substantial citizens of his locality. His ranch of 200 acres, which he has developed from a stubblefield, is located twelve miles south of Stockton on the French Camp Road. A native son, he was born in Gonzales, December 10, 1888, a son of Martin P. Kelly, an old-time resident of Monterey County. Charles E. Kelly received a good education in the public schools of San Jose and finished with a business course in Heald's Business College of that city. In 1908 he took a trip through the East which consumed about eighteen months, and on returning to this state located in San Francisco, where he was in the employ of the Union Hardware Company for a year and a half. He then went to Humboldt County, where he entered the employ of the Pacific Lumber Mills as a logger, and within a year's time he was advanced to tallyman.
Returning to his native county of Monterey, he became a range rider on his father's ranch for one year; then became a clerk for the Western Meat Packers at San Francisco, and at the end of two years, in 1912, he returned to the home ranch, which he farmed on shares for one year. He next leased land from the David Jacks estate near Soledad, and ran a dairy, selling his product to the Alpine Condensed Milk Company at Gonzales, and during the three years he was there he raised and sold several herds of Durham cattle; Mr. Kelly then purchased a ranch near Soledad, where he maintained a dairy until 1917, when he sold his property to the David Jacks estate and removed to San Joaquin County. Locating twelve miles south of Stockton on the French Camp Road, he purchased 200 acres which he has developed into a modern dairy ranch; he has planted twenty acres to vineyard and sixty acres are seeded to alfalfa.
The marriage of Mr. Kelly on June 29, 1920, united him with Miss Hattie Helen Ober, a daughter of John Ober, a pioneer of Soledad. Miss Ober was reared and educated in Monterey County and is a graduate of the Salinas high school, class of 1914. Besides his home place, which requires a great deal of attention. Mr. Kelly is interested in sheep-raising in San Benito County. Fraternally he is a member of the Stockton Lodge No. 218, B.P.O.E. Mr. Kelly is progressive in all things and by practical experience and self-reliance in gaining a most creditable success.
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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