San Joaquin County Biographies


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ROBERT LAUDENBACH.
HENRY LAUDENBACH.
 
        A representative San. Joaquin County rancher whose steady, substantial 
success has marked the progress of agriculture in this favored section is Robert 
Laudenbach, who was born near Atlanta, in San Joaquin County, on October 24, 
1872, the son of Henry and Barbara (Becker) Laundenbach. His father was born in 
Hesse-Castle, Germany, as was his mother, who came from Gravenhausen, in the 
Rhine section of Germany what was called Rhein Beyern; the former was an 
emigrant to the United States in 1832, when he crossed the ocean, came inland to 
Kentucky, and settled at Louisville. There, being a cooper, he worked at his 
trade for a short time, and then he came to St. Louis, Mo., proceeding from 
there to New Orleans, where he again worked at his trade.
        In 1854, Henry Laudenbach, stirred by the reports from the new gold 
country, came on to California, by way of the Isthmian route, landing at San 
Francisco; and from there he went directly to the mines on the Sacramento River, 
and at Placerville, following mining for the next four years. He then came into 
San Joaquin County in 1858 and settled at Atlanta, and he purchased a 
half-section of very sandy soil, which he farmed until 1875, when he sold out 
and moved to a point northeast of Stockton. There he settled what was known as 
the Murray ranch, of 200 acres, which he leased for eight years. He next 
purchased the ranch where our subject now resides, locally called the old Nelson 
rancho, situate four miles from Stockton on the Waterloo Road, and consisting of 
300 acres, which he farmed for many years, or up to the time of his death in 
1912, aged eighty-one years. Of these original 300 acres, 100 have been sold 
off, and the balance has been so divided that our subject now owns ninety acres, 
which are devoted to grain farming.
        Six children made up the family of Mr. and Mrs. Laudenbach, and Mary, 
the present Mrs. Renner, was the eldest in the group and lives in Stockton. Fred 
and George are in Stockton; Robert, Eda and Henry W. The mother died in 1898. 
Robert attended the grammar school of the August district, where he had a solid 
preparation for the duties of life. Except for four years spent on a grain farm 
of 240 acres located farther out, on the Linden Road, he has always lived on the 
old place, which has a house which was there when his father moved onto the 
farm, and which is said to be at least fifty years old. Mr. Laudenbach finds his 
social pleasures largely in the congenial circle of Iroquois Tribe No. 35 of the 
Red Men of Stockton. He has been twelve years a trustee of the August school 
district; independent in politics, he tries to vote only for the best men and 
the most approved measures.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    1575      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.