San Joaquin County Biographies
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GEORGE WASHINGTON LLOYD
As a worthy representative of one of the early California pioneer families, George Washington Lloyd is one of the highly respected farmers and citizens of San Joaquin County. The family is of Scotch-Irish origin, first represented in America by Thomas Lloyd, the grandfather of our subject, who settled in Rhode Island in an early day. He married Miss Rosa McLaughlin, also a native of Ireland, and she and her husband removed from Rhode Island to Massachusetts, where they both died. George Washington Lloyd was born in San Joaquin County on the Lloyd ranch west of Lodi, August 12, 1877, a son of Robert Lloyd. Robert Lloyd was reared on his father's farm in Massachusetts, remaining at home until he was twenty-one years old. In 1854 he came to California, via Panama, sailing from New York and landing at San Francisco on April 13, 1854. The following two years he spent in mining, and during the year 1856 he settled in San Joaquin County and took up a quarter-section of land near Lafayette, which is now the home place of his widow and son, George W. This land was covered with a dense growth of trees, but by hard work the father cleared enough land to plant the first crop in the fall of 1857, and the following year he commenced a general farming business. He came to own 333 acres, and was busy in improving and developing it, later selling off all but sixty acres, which he owned at the time of his death, November 19, 1906. On October 14, 1873, he was married in Stockton to Miss Susan B. Murray, a native of Tipton, Iowa, daughter of Edward and Jane (Boyd) Murray, both natives of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd were the parents of four children. Three grew up and are living: Gertrude, George Washington, our subject; and Lucretia G. The mother resides with our subject on the old home place where she first went as a bride in 1873. Mrs. Lloyd lost her mother when still very young. She lived on the home ranch till ten years of age. The home farm was sold and she began shifting for herself. She received her education in the public school. In 1873 she made a trip to California, coming to Mokelumne Station, where her sister, Mrs. Jane Herren, and also two brothers, William and Hugh Murray, were living.
George Washington Lloyd began his education at the Turner district school in the vicinity of his home, and later attended the San Joaquin Valley College at Woodbridge. His earliest recollections are of the old home farm, where he was reared and where he has always lived. His practical training in agriculture has been the means of making him one of the most successful viticulturists in his section of the county. The ranch has been developed to vineyard of table and wine grapes, irrigated by two pumping plants with four-inch pumps and seven-and-a-half-horse-power motors; and in his cultivation and developing of the property he uses both tractors and horses. The first house was built by the father in 1857 and has since been remodeled into a comfortable and commodious residence. In politics Mr. Lloyd is a Republican. He is public-spirited and favors everything to improve his district and elevate society, and he has made a wide acquaintance in the county of his nativity and is well-known as a representative agriculturalist.
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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