San Joaquin County Biographies This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm ABRAHAM KLINK. Since 1893, Abraham Klink has resided continuously in San Joaquin County, where he worked on different ranches until 1904, when he purchased his present ranch of twenty-five acres four and a half miles west of Lodi. He is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born December 2, 1864, a son of Adam and Philipina (May) Klink. They were the parents of six children: Katie, at home in Germany; Philipina, Mrs. H. F. Beckman of Lodi; Abraham; Lena, deceased; Elizabeth, Mrs. Coyer, deceased; and George, a blacksmith residing in Germany. The father passed away in Germany in 1872; the mother still lives in that country. Abraham received a good education, and when in his seventeenth year left home and came to America, where he became a cowboy, riding the range through Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming. In 1881 he made his first trip to California, working for wages as a cowboy until 1896, during which time he drove cattle on the trail across the plains five different times. In 1893 he settled in San Joaquin County, where he worked for wages on various ranches throughout the county; then in 1904 he invested his savings in twenty-five acres of unimproved land about one-half mile north of Lafayette Hall; fifteen acres of this ranch he has set to vineyard and also has a small orchard. He has built a new house and there are other farm buildings on the place. Mr. Klink is a good judge of horses and for a number of years was engaged in buying and selling horses; he also teamed to the mines from Grizzly Flat to Stockton and Sacramento. He has never regretted his change of residence from the old world to the new, for he has found opportunities here whereby he has prospered and has gained a good home and the favorable regard of many friends. History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1923 p 1537 Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.