San Joaquin County Biographies


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RALPH J. POST.
 
        For the past two years Ralph J. Post has been assistant manager of the 
Woodbridge Fruit Company, and has been so capable in this position that the 
business of the company has been continuously growing. Mr. Post is also actively 
interested in grape culture. owning twenty-five acres in San Joaquin County and 
forty acres near Herald, Sacramento County, the entire acreage being devoted to 
vineyard. He was born in San Joaquin County on his father's ranch east of 
Stockton on the Copperopolis Road, November 25, 1892, a son of Frank H. and Cora 
Belle (Ralph) Post, both natives of California. His paternal grandfather came to 
California as early as 1848. The father passed away at the age of fifty years, 
while the mother is still living.
        Ralph J. Post attended the Live Oak district school, the Salem school in 
Lodi and the Stockton high school; later he took a business course in Stockton, 
and at the age of eighteen years he became a paying teller in the First National 
Bank of Lodi, where he remained for seven years. He then resigned to become 
cashier of the Bank of Galt, a position he filled with efficiency for two years. 
He then purchased his twenty-five-acre ranch, which is in young vineyard, and 
both this and his forty-acre vineyard in Sacramento County are well irrigated. 
Mr. Post is a member of the Rio Oso Fruit Company, with headquarters at 
Wheatland, Cal., and acts as secretary of the company; he is also a stockholder 
in the Citizens National Bank of Lodi.
        On November 11, 1914, in Lodi, Mr. Post was married to Miss Eugenia 
Villinger, born at Covina, Cal., a daughter of Asa and Martha (Kaiser) 
Villinger. Her father was born on a sailing vessel en route to California around 
the Horn in the early days. Mr. Post is a Republican in politics and fraternally 
belongs to the Masonic Lodge in Lodi, the Commandery at Stockton, also the Royal 
Arch of that city and Ben Ali Temple at Sacramento. Mr. and Mrs. Post are the 
parents of one daughter, Isabelle. Mr. Post is an excellent business man, and 
has gained for himself a handsome competence, which places him among the 
community's substantial residents.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    1577      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.