San Joaquin County Biographies


This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm



RUSSELL B. KINCAID.
 
        A widely known business man of Ripon, Russell B. Kincaid is also a 
native of this vicinity and the popular and successful proprietor of the Ripon 
Meat Company. He was born on the Kincaid ranch near Ripon, December 18, 1881, 
the youngest son of the Hon. F. H. Kincaid, a native of Iowa, a Civil War 
veteran, and in early days a member of the California Legislature. Russell B. 
Kincaid was reared on the ranch and attended the River district school until he 
was fifteen years of age; then he worked on the home place until he was 
twenty-one, when he went to Merced to learn the carpenter's trade, which 
occupied him for two years. In 1904, in partnership with Mr. Powell of Escalon, 
he bought the meat department of Yaple & Company. After four months the 
partnership was dissolved and Mr. Kincaid became sole owner and has since 
conducted the business on conservative business lines. Four years ago he took as 
his partner, A. E. Van Slyck. The company maintains a slaughterhouse one and a 
half miles southwest of Ripon, on the Stanislaus River, which has been conducted 
on strictly sanitary lines for the past fourteen years. The town shop is a model 
meat market in every particular and the company enjoys a growing business, 
catering to the trade throughout south San Joaquin County.
        The marriage of Mr. Kincaid occurred at Stockton, which united him with 
Miss Clara Garrison, a daughter of John and Eliza (Frederick) Garrison, pioneers 
of Ripon. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid; Estella, Inez, 
Russell B. Jr., William, and Evelyn. Mr. Kincaid is a member of the Ripon 
Merchants' Association and Woodmen of America and Mt. Horeb Lodge, I. O. O. F. 
He owns a fine residence in Ripon and other valuable real estate. An excellent 
business man, he has gained for himself a handsome competence, which places him 
among the substantial residents of the community.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    1474      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.