Santa Clara County Biographies


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RICHARD V. DEIDRICH, 
 
who resides at 678 South Second Street, San Jose, where he owns a comfortable 
home, is a native of Columbia County, New York, at which place he was born in 
1840. At the age of nineteen he came to the mines in California. In 1866 he came 
to San Jose, where he accepted the position of manager of the Vineyard Flour 
Mills, a situation he occupied for fifteen years. In 1880, his health failing, 
he was compelled to resign, when he purchased twenty-one acres of land in the 
Willows. In 1885 six acres of the orchard was sold at $1,000 per acre. The 
remaining fifteen acres, which are situated on the corner of Curtner and Booksin 
Avenues, are now in their prime. This orchard consists of a variety of fruit, 
but principally prunes, cherries, and apricots. In 1886 his 530 prune trees bore 
fifty tons of fruit, other trees paying well. This year, 1888, it is estimated 
that the prune trees will have seventy tons of prunes. The apricots this year 
paid $200 per acre, clear of expenses. Mr. Deidrich, as well as his wife, has 
been a resident of San Jose for over twenty-three years, and has seen the city 
grow from a small Spanish town to the "Garden City," which it now is. He is a 
strong temperance man as well as a stanch Republican in politics.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
Pg. 494