San Joaquin County Biographies


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JOHN ELTRINGHAM
 
        A rancher whose specializing in vineyarding and orcharding has met with 
great success is John Eltringham, a native son from Calaveras County, who is now 
living three miles to the northeast of Acampo. He was born at Douglas Flat, on 
January 13, 1874, a son of John and Elizabeth (Reese) Eltringham. His father was 
an early settler in California, who came from Pennsylvania in 1848, and mined in 
Tuolumne County. He was of English descent, but the mother's people were of 
Welsh extraction. They also came West in the early days, crossing the plains, as 
did the father, in order to reach the Golden State. Mr. Eltringham mined all his 
life. He lived to be eighty-eight years of age, and was the father of nine 
children. Hattie has become Mrs. Zwinge, and lives in Valley Spring, Cal.; Mary 
is Mrs. Seibert, of Lodi; Katherine died at the age of ten; Henry is at Wedge 
Flat, in Calaveras County; Will is farming at Stockton; John was the sixth-born; 
Walter is deceased; David is at Douglas Flat, on the old home place; and Vina is 
at Angels Camp, Cal.
        John Eltringham left home when he was fourteen years old and worked for 
three years for P. A. Buell, in the planing mill at Stockton. Then he became an 
engineer, working for the Wagner Leather Company for thirteen years. The next 
three years were spent at Topman & Brant's planing mills at Stockton. In 1914, 
he bought twenty-three acres of open land, which he developed as an orchard, 
growing apricots and prunes. An excellent pumping plant furnishes a seven-inch 
stream of water.
        At Stockton, in November, 1898, Mr. Eltringham married Miss Lena 
Seifert, who was born at Stockton, the daughter of Lorenz and Lena Seifert, 
whose life-story is elsewhere sketched in this work. She was reared and educated 
in Stockton, and grew up at home. They have one son, Reese Eltringham, who 
assists his father. They operate their own farm, and also lease of Mr. Van 
Valkenberg some sixty acres in vineyard, ten acres in alfalfa, and fifty acres 
of open farm land. Mr. and Mrs. Eltringham are Republicans. Mr. Eltringham 
belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Stockton.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    1075      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.