San Joaquin County Biographies


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OTTO NEUBAUER.
 
        A well known citizen and the owner of a productive ten-acre vineyard on 
Harney Lane, in the Lodi section, is Otto Neubauer, and his place is visible 
evidence of his enterprise and thrift. He was born in Pommern, Germany, on 
January 19, 1866, a son of William and Henrietta (Limberg) Neubauer, farmers of 
their native land. They were the parents of seven children; Otto, the subject of 
this sketch, being the third in order of birth.
        Otto attended the excellent schools of his native land and learned the 
trade of blacksmith there; and on July 7, 1888, landed on American soil and went 
direct to Faribault, Minn., where he found employment with Henry Reinege for one 
year on his farm. He then moved to Superior, Wis., and worked as blacksmith in 
the timber camps for H. M. Stocking; later he was lumberjack for seven years; 
then became a cook in the camps near Superior and finally opened a restaurant 
there, but sold out and went back to Faribault, where he conducted a hotel and 
restaurant for nearly three years, when he returned to Superior and ran a 
restaurant for one year. He then sold his restaurant in Superior and came to 
California and opened a restaurant at Lodi, which he continued for four and a 
half years, when he sold out and moved on a thirty-acre ranch just off of 
Cherokee Lane, two and half miles southeast of Lodi, which he had purchased upon 
coming here. This place was a part of the old Ferdun ranch and was devoted to 
grapes, which he set out, and to alfalfa growing. He lived on this plate for 
eleven years and then sold it and purchased the ranch of ten acres on Harney 
Lane where he now resides. He built a new, modern house and installed a pumping 
plant for irrigation with a four-inch pump driven by a ten horse-power motor.
        The marriage of Mr. Neubauer occurred at Morristown, Minn., on June 26, 
1899, and united him with Miss Katie Weber, a daughter of Jacob Weber, a farmer 
of Morristown. Mrs. Neubauer was reared and educated in Morristown. Mr. and Mrs. 
Neubauer have had four children; Otto and Walter, died in infancy in Wisconsin; 
Mildred, died in her 13th year; Harold, died at four years. He is a Republican 
in politics and he and his wife are members of the German Lutheran Church of 
Lodi.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p     1621     
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.