San Joaquin County Biographies
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HENRY A. LINNE
An eminent citizen who has long been a prominent rancher, and who is known far and wide as an enthusiastic advocate of irrigation, is Henry A. Linne, who was born in San Francisco on November 3, 1876, and now resides about two miles east of Tracy on the Lincoln Highway. He came to San Joaquin County in 1885, and located on the Fink ranch near Bethany, having been preceded to this place by his elder brother, Adolph H. Linne. He worked out for two years at Bethany, and it was after that that he removed to the Fink rancho, where he followed farm labor until 1899. The year 1898, the two brothers put up their first crop; and having experienced a dry year, they lost heavily. Year after year they kept going, however, and by intelligent industry and unimpeachable integrity, they won success. They together acquired lands and have extensive holdings which are farmed on a co-partnership basis.
Henry A. Linne has thirty-five acres of well-irrigated alfalfa, and as a member of the Tracy Local, he belongs to the Farm Bureau. He heartily supports every movement likely to hasten the development and progress of the community, and he is a Republican in matters of national political import.
At Stockton, in 1909, Mr. Linne was married to Miss Margaret Austin, a sturdy farmer who hailed from New York. He settled for awhile, in his first move westward, in Michigan, and then, in 1850, at the time of the continued gold excitement, he accompanied a party bound across the plains to California. He became prominent in the Southern mines, and he owned a freighting business operating out from, and on the return to Copperopolis, in Calaveras County. He married Mary E. Downing, who was born in Illinois, and had come west by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1860. Their family was reared at Farmington; and two of the three children have survived. Charles W. served as a member of the State Legislature from 1896 up to the time of his death on February 11, 1898; Kate became Mrs. Mills of Stockton; and Margaret, Mrs. H.A. Linne, is a graduate of the Oakdale district school, and also York's Normal School at Stockton. She followed her profession as teacher for nine years, and having married, now has one child, Ruth Irene, a pupil of the grammar school at Tracy. Mr. and Mrs. Linne are members of the Native Sons of the Golden West and the Native Daughters of the Golden West.
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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