San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 4/10/2010
FRED C. MAIER
A successful contractor of Lodi who has prospered ever since locating here in 1908, is Fred C. Maier, a native of Russia, born in that far-off land December 31, 1869. When he was fifteen years old he came to the United States, locating in South Dakota, where for the next ten years he worked out on farms. He then filed on a homestead claim of 160 acres near Eureka, S.D., farming this for seven years before he sold it, and then bought another 160 acres near by for which he paid $925. After farming this place for four years he disposed of the land for $3,200, and the farm buildings and equipment for $2,400, a very profitable transaction.
Mr. Maier then located at Ashley, S.D., where he took up the trade of carpenter, remaining there until 1908, when he came to Lodi, and he has been busily engaged since that time as a building contractor. He has done some fine work in this vicinity, erecting houses costing from $5,000 to $20,000, among them the ranch residences of John V. Bare, Mrs. Phillips, Ed Pope and the Woock Bros., the homes of G. Krowell, John Powers, Fred Frey, Gottlieb Mettler, D.D. Mettler, John Bender, and Mr. Peete in Lodi, the Pioneer Fuel & Feed Company building and the packing house for the Farmers' Fruit Exchange in Lodi, besides a number of other fruit packing houses. His gross business in 1920 was about $100,000, leading all other contractors in Lodi in building operations for that period. On coming to Lodi he bought a two-acre tract and erected a house on it which he later sold for $3,100; the family now make their home in an attractive residence at 533 East Walnut Street.
Mr. Maier's marriage, in 1902, united him with Miss Katie Presler, like himself a native of Russia, and they have a daughter, Bertha, the wife of Theodore Eichler of Lodi. The family are members of the German Baptist Church and Mr. Maier contributed generously to the building fund for the erection of their new church edifice.
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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