Tulare County Biographies

JOSEPH MAURER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Joseph Maurer, junior member of the firm of Cobb & Maurer, druggists in 
Porterville and one of the well established merchants of that flourishing city, 
has been a resident of California since 1912 and is so thoroughly "sold" on the 
manifold merits and advantages of this region as a place of residence that he is 
quite content to regard himself as a thoroughgoing Californian the rest of his 
life. Mr. Maurer has been engaged in the pharmacy line since the days of his 
boyhood and is highly qualified along that line. He came here as a registered 
pharmacist from the state of Wisconsin, readily passed the examination for 
professional registration in this state and has since been following that 
profession in California, a resident of Porterville since 1913 and engaged in 
business on his own behalf since 1920. He was born on a farm in Calumet county, 
Wisconsin, April 26, 1890, the last born of the ten children of Mathias and Anna 
(Phillippi) Maurer, who are now (1925) living retired in Appleton, that state, 
the former at the age of eighty-four years and the latter at the age of 
eighty-one. The eldest daughter of this venerable couple, Eva, is a member of 
the sisterhood of the Convent of St. Agnes at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The other 
members of this family, besides the subject of this sketch, are: Mary, John, 
Catherine, Anna, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Mathias, Jr., and Margaret. The senior 
Mathias Maurer and his wife are both natives of Germany, born in the Rheinish 
province of Prussia, but have been residents of this country since the days of 
their childhood, having come to America with their respective parents in their 
youth. They met and were married in Woodville township, Calumet county, 
Wisconsin, in 1866, and Mathias Maurer established himself on a farm in that 
township, where he continued actively engaged in farming until his retirement in 
1905 and removal to the nearby city of Appleton, where he and his wife now are 
living. They are earnest members of the Roman Catholic church and their children 
were reared in that faith. Mathias Maurer was a democrat until the memorable 
campaign of 1920 came on, when he aligned himself with the republicans and 
helped swell the enormous majority returned in behalf of that party's nominee 
for the presidency in that year.
        Reared on the home farm in Wisconsin, Joseph Maurer put the finishing 
touches to his early education in the Appleton high school and then began 
working in the Rufus C. Lowell drug store in that city. After a period of 
practical experience along that line in that store Mr. Maurer, when eighteen 
years of age, entered the School of Pharmacy of Marquette University, Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, and upon finishing his work there in 1909 was licensed as a 
registered pharmacist by the board of pharmacy of the state of Wisconsin and 
became employed in that state as a professional pharmacist. In 1912 Mr. Maurer 
left his home state and came to California with a view to engaging in business 
along some other than his professional line, but old ties are often found 
binding and it was thus that after three months of "prospecting" here he went 
before the state board of pharmacy and after a critical and exacting examination 
was licensed to practice his profession in this state. In the fall of 1913 Mr. 
Maurer became employed in the Claubes drug store in Porterville and was there 
engaged as pharmacist for seven years, at the end of which time, on January 1, 
1920, he formed his present business connection with William J. Cobb (a 
partnership) and has since been in business as the junior partner of the firm of 
Cobb & Maurer, proprietors of a well stocked, admirably appointed and thoroughly 
up-to-date drug store, one of the most popular establishments of its kind in 
this section of the state, and is doing very well. Mr. Maurer is a member of the 
local lodge (No. 1342) of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is also a 
member of the local council of the Knights of Columbus.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., pp. 143