San Joaquin County Biographies


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HENRY A. LINNE.
 
        An eminent citizen who has long been a prominent rancher, and who is 
known far and wide as an enthusiastic advocate of irrigation, is Henry A. Linne, 
who was born in San Francisco on November 3, 1876, and now resides about two 
miles east of Tracy on the Lincoln Highway. He came to San Joaquin County in 
1885, and located on the Fink ranch near Bethany, having been preceded to this 
place by his elder brother, Adolph H. Linne. He worked out for two years at 
Bethany, and it was after that that he removed to the Fink rancho, where he 
followed farm labor until 1899. The year 1898, the two brothers put up their 
first crop; and having experienced a dry year, they lost heavily. Year after 
year they kept going, however, and by intelligent industry and unimpeachable 
integrity, they won success. They together acquired lands and have extensive 
holdings which are farmed on a copartnership basis.
        Henry A. Linne has thirty-five acres of well-irrigated alfalfa, and as a 
member of the Tracy Local, he belongs to the Farm Bureau. He heartily supports 
every movement likely to hasten the development and progress of the community, 
and he is a Republican in matters of national political import.
        At Stockton, in 1909, Mr. Linne was married to Miss Margaret Austin, the 
daughter of the well-known pioneer, Daniel Austin, a sturdy farmer who hailed 
from New York. He settled for awhile, in his first move westward, in Michigan, 
and then, in 1850, at the time of the continued gold excitement, he accompanied 
a party bound across the plains to California. He became prominent in the 
Southern mines, and he owned a freighting business operating out from, and on 
the return to Copperopolis, in Calaveras County. He married Mary E. Downing, who 
was born in Illinois, and had come west by way of the Isthmus of Panama in 1860. 
Their family was reared at Farmington; and two of the three children have 
survived. Charles W. served as a member of the State Legislature from 1896 up to 
the time of his death on February 11, 1898; Kate became Mrs. Mills of Stockton; 
and Margaret, Mrs. H. A. Linne, is a graduate of the Oakdale district school, 
and also York's Normal School at Stockton. She followed her profession as 
teacher for nine years, and having married, now has one child, Ruth Irene, a 
pupil of the grammar school at Tracy. Mr. and Mrs. Linne are members of the 
Native Sons of the Golden West and the Native Daughters of the Golden West.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1384       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.