San Joaquin County Biographies


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JAMES WILSON STUCKENBRUCK.
 
        A resident of the most favored section of the San Joaquin Valley is 
James Wilson Stuckenbruck, the successful vineyardist recently chosen County 
Supervisor from the Fourth District. He was born in Tipton, Iowa, on December 
14, 1857, the son of Frederick and Jane Stuckenbruck; and he was the third child 
in a family of five. His father was a farmer on a small ranch. James received an 
education in the common schools.
        At the age of thirteen he learned the blacksmith's trade at Tipton, 
Iowa, and later he went to Coon Rapids, Iowa, following his trade there. From 
1892 to 1897 he served as the postmaster at Coon Rapids, and while there he was 
also for twelve years on the school board; he was for about fifteen years a 
resident of that place.
        At Bayard, Iowa, on October 16, 1882, he was married to Miss Anna 
Goodrich, a native of Michigan and the daughter of Charles and Mary Goodrich. 
His wife's father was a blacksmith by trade, and he moved to Iowa when Mrs. 
Stuckenbruck was a little child, and there the family resided for many years. 
Mr. Stuckenbruck was employed for three and one-half years, from 1902 on, in the 
government service at Fort Bayard, acting as an instructor in mechanics on the 
Indian reservation. His health gave way, and in 1905 he and his wife came to 
California and settled at Santa Ana, in Orange County, and after a year and a 
half there, he went to Lodi, and in 1908 served in the Legislature, until 1912. 
From 1914 to 1915 he was member of the State Senate. In 1915 he was admitted to 
the bar of California, and practiced law at Lodi until 1917; and in 1918 he was 
elected Supervisor from the Fourth district, and he has served as such since, to 
the satisfaction of everyone concerned.
        Mr. Stuckenbruck has made his home on his twelve-acre ranch, about three 
miles east of Acampo. He has one son, Ellory, a rancher, who resides with him. 
Mr. Stuckenbruck is vice-president of the Farmers Insurance Company of San 
Joaquin County, a Mason of Lodi Lodge, and a member of the Knights of Pythias of 
Lodi.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1151        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.