San Joaquin County Biographies


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ERNEST M. McKINDLEY.
 
        Among the well-known fruit culturists of San Joaquin County is Ernest M. 
McKindley, whose career in that industry has been markedly successful. He was 
born at Sutter Creek, Cal., January 7, 1884, a son of Josiah McKindley and his 
wife, Emma A. (Mattice) McKindley, natives of Missouri and Illinois, 
respectively. Josiah McKindley was a babe in arms when his parents crossed the 
plains to California in 1853. The story of his life may be found in this 
history.
        Ernest M. McKindley went to school at the Lee district school of 
Sacramento County, and his earliest recollections are those of helping with the 
farm work on his father's farm. In 1901 his father settled on his present place, 
and Ernest has assisted in cultivating, planting and caring for the orchards and 
vineyards since his youth. In 1919 he purchased a thirty-acre ranch on the 
Terminous road, fifteen acres of which he set to vineyard, and further improved 
it, and in January of 1922 sold it at a fair profit. For the past six years he 
has had charge of the 300-acre stock ranch owned by his father on the Mokelumne 
River, but makes his home on Poplar Street in Lodi.
        On Christmas Day, 1909, Mr. McKindley was married to Miss May Tenney, a 
native daughter of California, born in Monterey County, but educated in the 
schools of Acampo. She is the daughter of John and Mary Tenney and the oldest of 
a family of four children, the others being Jose, Edith and Lester. John Tenney 
was the proprietor of a hotel in Acampo, and was in that business at the time of 
his death in 1913. Mrs. Tenney resides at the present time in Healdsburg. Mr. 
and Mrs. McKindley are the parents of seven children: Mahlon, Irma, Edna, Ruth, 
Ray, Cecil and John. In politics Mr. McKindley is a Democrat, and fraternally he 
is affiliated with the Lodi Parlor, N. S. G. W.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    932      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.