San Joaquin County Biographies


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JOHN EVERT POSEY.
 
        A substantial citizen and prosperous farmer of the younger generation, 
John Evert Posey is a practical and successful man of affairs. He was born on 
his father's ranch six miles west of Lodi, Cal., August 3, 1897, a son of John 
M. and Lena M. (Stimpson) Posey, worthy pioneers of San Joaquin County. John 
Evert Posey received his education in the Turner district school and the Lodi 
high school, and his earliest recollections are of the old home farm, where he 
was trained in the work of the ranch, thus fitting him for the responsibilities 
that came to him later. He has always been in partnership with his father in the 
extensive ranch holdings; one forty-acre ranch about seven miles from Lodi on 
the Harshner Road has been set to young vineyard, and Mr. Posey resides on a 
fifty-acre ranch on the same road, which is a producing vineyard, interset with 
plums, cherries and pears; this ranch has two pumping plants, while the 
forty-acre ranch is under the Stockton-Mokelumne irrigation system. In October, 
1918, he entered the U. S. Army and was sent to Fort Rosecrans, at San Diego, 
Cal., serving in the 25th Coast Artillery Corps until his discharge, December 
21, 1918.
        On April 23, 1919, at Lodi, Mr. Posey was married to Miss Myrtle Rond, a 
daughter of Nick and Jessie Rond. She was two years old when her parents came to 
California, and she received her education at the Ray district school in the 
vicinity of her father's farm in San Joaquin County. Her father is a well-to-do 
farmer on the Sargent Road west of Lodi. Mr. and Mrs. Posey are the parents of 
one child, Generose. Mr. Posey is a public-spirited citizen, a friend of schools 
and all enterprises for the public good, and has been able to make his influence 
felt for progress in all his relations with business and civic affairs; and in 
politics he is a Republican.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1577       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.