San Joaquin County Biographies


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WILLIAM MECKLENBERG.
 
        For the past thirty-seven years William Mecklenberg has continuously 
resided in San Joaquin County and since early manhood has been prominently 
identified with the agricultural interests of San Joaquin County, having been 
one of the most extensive grain farmers of the West Side. He was born at Des 
Moines, Iowa, on February 2, 1883, and when two years old was brought by his 
mother to this state and entered the home of George Thoming, near Vernalis, and 
in this splendid environment he grew to young manhood. He received a good 
education in the schools of the district and when he was fourteen years old 
began to make his way in the world. He worked for five years on the Thoming 
ranch, or until he was nineteen years old, then began to farm on shares, 
receiving in the neighborhood of 11,000 sacks of grain for his share. In 1905 he 
purchased 160 acres of land and gradually added to it until he owned a 
half-section, and with another quarter-section leased he thus farmed 480 acres 
to wheat and barley. In connection with his grain raising, he had also dealt in 
buying and selling mules and horses.
        On account of failing health he sold everything in 1919, and upon his 
removal to Tracy, he underwent three serious operations, but by excellent care 
is slowly regaining his former health. He now owns twenty acres of excellent 
irrigated alfalfa land on the Lincoln Highway, three miles east of Tracy, on 
which is a fine residence and other farm buildings. Mr. Mecklenberg is the 
father of two children, Ivan and Dorothy, and his mother makes her home with 
him. He owns a residence on East Tenth street and other desirable town lots in 
Tracy. Politically he is a Republican and fraternally is affiliated with the 
Knights of Pythias. He is a representative resident of San Joaquin County, where 
he has made his home from his boyhood days.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1400       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.