San Joaquin County Biographies
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JACOB J. KNOLL
A well-known citizen and vinyardist of San Joaquin County is Jacob J. Knoll, who has worked his way upward from a humble financial position to one of independence, and is the owner of a ten-acre vineyard one and a half miles southeast of Victor. He was born in South Russia near the city of Odessa, December 24, 1890, a son of Jacob and Christina (Werner) Knoll, both natives of Russia, who came to the United States when their son Jacob was a boy of six years. They settled in Wells County, N.D., and there the father homesteaded a large tract of land; later on he sold his North Dakota property and removed to San Joaquin County, Cal., and purchased vineyard land, which he brought to a high state of cultivation, so that he is among the most wealthy of the vinyardists in the vicinity of Victor today.
The education of Jacob Knoll was obtained in the public schools of his vicinity; but from a lad he assisted his father on the home farm, where he was obliged to work early and late. He remained at home until he was nineteen years old, and then went to Canada in 1909 and homesteaded a quarter-section of land lying along the Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan, near the town of Moose Jaw. There he raised grain, remaining until 1919, when he sold out and came to California. Here he purchased ten acres on the crossroads, about two miles southeast of Victor, the vicinity of his father's vineyard.
At Moose Jaw, Canada, on January 7, 1912, occurred the marriage of Mr. Knoll and Miss Christiina Wahl, also a native of South Russia, and the daughter of Adam and Magdalena (Settler) Wahl, both natives of South Russia. Adam Wahl came to America with his family in 1897, and settling in Wells County, N.D., near Sheridan, homesteaded a tract of land. Later he sold out and went to Canada, and taking up a claim near Woodrow, farmed to grain for ten years. Again selling out, he came to California and is the owner of a seventeen-and-one-half-acre vineyard south of Lockeford on the Jack Tone road. There are five children in the family, of whom Mrs. Knoll is the eldest, the others being Katherine, who is Mrs. Young of Tracy; Jacob, Adam, and Ida. Mr. and Mrs. Knoll are the parents of four children: Martha, Irene, Anna and Alice. Mr. Knoll's vineyard consists of two acres of Tokay grapes and four acres of wine grapes in full bearing, and the balance is in young vines, with ample space for buildings.
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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