San Joaquin County Biographies
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JACOB KURTZ
Classed with the representative horticulturists of San Joaquin County, Jacob Kurtz was born in Bon Homme County, S.D., October 10, 1888, a son of Henry and Helen (Unruh) Kurtz. Henry Kurtz was born and reared in Germany, where he learned the harness-maker's trade. In young manhood he came to the United States and settled in South Dakota, where he homesteaded land. There he married and reared a family of eleven children, our subject being the fifth in order of birth. In 1903 he brought his family to California, and settling in San Joaquin County, he bought a ten-acre ranch near Woodbridge, where he resided until his death at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother is alive and resides in Lodi at the present time. Following are the names of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Kurtz: Henry, living in Montana; Carrie, Mrs. Geo. Moran, a widow, residing in Stockton; Edward, of Lodi; Anna, Mrs. Wm. Ditton of Fowler, Ind.; Jacob, the subject of this review; Mary, Mrs. G.A. Brown of Rio Vista, Cal.; Ruth, Mrs. Wm. Stitt of Stockton; Bertha, Mrs. Thomas Churchill of Yreka, Cal.; Albert, of Palo Alto; Herman, of Lodi; and Minnie, of Lodi.
Jacob Kurtz began his education in South Dakota, and after coming to California attended the Woodbridge public school. From youth up he has known no other business activity than general farming and fruit raising, and has gained a very large degree of success in this line.
The marriage of Mr. Kurtz occurred May 19, 1919, at Modesto, Cal., and united him with Miss Marie G. Lange, born in Lodi, Cal., and a daughter of John Lange. Her father was a farmer who owned a tract of land southeast of Lodi in the Beckman tract, and Mrs. Kurtz received her education in the Lodi grammar school and the Stockton Business College. Mrs. Kurtz is one of a family of seven children: William, Herman, Meta, now Mrs. Zomig of Lodi; Albert, John, Emma (deceased), and Marie G. Seven years ago, Mr. Kurtz bought his present place of sixty acres near Woodbridge, on which there is an apricot orchard of ten acres, six-year-old trees, well cared for and heavy producers; the balance of the land is in bearing vineyard. The ranch is under the Stockton-Mokelumne irrigation system. Mr. Kurtz has further improved his property with a fine modern bungalow. In politics he is a Republican, and with his wife he belongs to the Lutheran Church of Lodi.
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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