San Joaquin County
Biographies
CARL T. LIND
Activity and energy in business affairs have been the stepping-stones to Mr. Lind's success, and today he is the owner of 316 acres of the finest and most productive soil in central California, the greater portion of which is in vineyard. Carl T. Lind was born in Hartford, Conn., May 18, 1884, a son of Nels A. and Johanna (Douglass) Lind. He is the eldest of a family of eight children, and was a babe in arms when his parents came to California and settled in San Francisco, where the father engaged in the mercantile business for many years. The other members of the family are Minna, Andrew, Fred, William, Harry, Lena and Walter. Both parents are still living in San Francisco.
Carl T. Lind's education was obtained in the public school of San Francisco. When ten years of age he became a cash boy in the store of O'Connor & Moffitt, in San Francisco; and later he was a packer in a wholesale store in the Bay city, where he remained for eight years. In 1906 he settled in Lodi, working as a journeyman carpenter for a few years, and then engaged in general contracting and building in Lodi for twelve years, this proving a successful undertaking.
On August 1, 1904, Mr. Lind was married to Miss Jensiene Hauso, born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, who came to California in 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Lind are the parents of ten children: Carl, Robert, James, Arthur, Marie, Ethel, Albert, Lester, Chester and Merrill. In 1918 Mr. Lind became interested in buying and selling land, and also engaged in farming. His first purchase was ten acres east of the Houston schoolhouse, a part of the Northrop ranch; this ranch was in young vineyard. Mr. Lind later sold this vineyard, and from time to time bought and sold various places throughout the valley. Following are the properties he now owns: 100 acres southeast of Lodi on Harney Lane, part of which is in vineyard and part grain land; 106 acres north of Victor in which he owns a two-thirds interest, all in vineyard; forty acres two miles east of Youngstown, all planted to peaches; and seventy acres on Cherokee Lane, four and a half miles north of Lodi, all set to Tokay grapes; making a total of 316 acres in San Joaquin County. Besides his extensive land interests, Mr. Lind loans money to the farmers throughout the county, and is also engaged in the real estate business in Lodi. He is a Republican in politics. A self-made man, who has fought his own battles in the world, he has practical ideas of affairs. While not a member of any church, Mr. Lind lends his support to every good movement and measure in his community.
History of San Joaquin County, California – Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1923
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Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
MRS. CLORINDA BAVA.
The city of Stockton may well be proud in having, as one of her most progressive citizens, Mrs. Clorinda Bava, a native daughter of exceptional character and worth, who was reared here in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benedetto Ratto, whose life-story is given elsewhere in this history, and who are justly regarded as among the sturdy pioneer builders of the great Golden State commonwealth. She attended the Franklin School in her girlhood, and on April 6, 1904, at Stockton, she was married to Santino Bava, a native of Italy, who had come to Stockton in 1892, and has since always followed agricultural pursuits, fortunate in his sterling qualities, which have easily given him a reputation for honesty and uprightness in his dealings with his fellowmen. Two children blessed the union: Benjamin, who was born in February, 1905, is well-advanced as a student, prominent in high school football, and in 1922 he played with the Varsity "Tarzans;" and Evelyn, born in March, 1908, is a pupil at the Lafayette School. Perhaps because of this active participation in school work by her own children, whose studies she seeks to direct, Mrs. Bava maintains a keen interest in the welfare of other children, and is always a strong advocate of better schools. The family belong to the Roman Catholic Church.
In addition to discharging her home duties, Mrs. Bava, who made easier the declining days of her beloved father, has assisted in looking after the Ratto estate, and her home is now in the residence where the family were reared, from which she radiates the most helpful influence, dispensing an appreciated charity, making bright the lives of those more or less clouded, and seeking really to help those who, for one reason or another, cannot always help themselves. All honor, then, to such a noble woman who, having reached success, has never forgotten that there are still others below on the mountain paths trying just as hard as she did to rise and succeed.
History of San Joaquin County, California – Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1923
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Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
BARRY M. BAINBRIDGE.
An attorney of Stockton of wide influence is Barry M. Bainbridge, who was born at Paulingville, in St. Charles County, Mo., on June 30, 1865, the son of Dr. James A. and Mary Elizabeth (Herold) Bainbridge, the former a native of Wisconsin, the latter of Missouri. Both are now deceased, kindly remembered by many for the usefulness and nobility of their lives. Dr. J. A. Bainbridge was an eclectic physician, and was educated at the Cincinnati Medical College; and he practiced his profession in Wisconsin and Missouri. They arrived at Stockton on December 12, 1874, and took rooms at the old Antelope Hotel, which stood at the corner of Sacramento Street and Weber Avenue. The father bought two separate sections of land near Ripon, one of which is now known as the West Vineyard Colony, and practiced his profession in the San Joaquin Valley, in a territory extending from Sacramento to Merced, and eastward into the mountain counties. For many years, often at much inconvenience and through unwearying labors, he ministered to the sick and unfortunate, and was beloved by the wide circle to whom he was so well known. He was an active man to within a short time of his death, which occurred in May, 1914, at the age of eighty-one. He was a Master Mason.
Ten children were born to this worthy couple, five being boys and five girls, and two of the sons followed in the professional footsteps of their father. Dr. J. C. Bainbridge is a resident of Santa Barbara, while E. D. Bainbridge was the only one of the family to follow farming as a livelihood, and he now resides on his ranch, three miles northeast of Ripon. He undoubtedly derived much guidance from his mother; for while Dr. Bainbridge practiced medicine, the sons managed the home ranch, under the leadership of Mrs. Bainbridge, who had exceptional executive ability.
As a boy, therefore, Barry Bainbridge also worked upon the home farm, helping to fence one of the sections of land, the first section so to be inclosed in the district; and at that time the entire valley was a vast grain field, and houses were few and far between. He attended the public schools of Stockton, and also the Stockton Business College. At the age of eighteen he received a teacher's certificate, and for twenty years in the county taught school, both in country districts and in the City of Stockton, and in the Sacramento as well as the Stockton Business College. During this period of his pedagogical activity, he studied law, and after putting in one year at the University of California, was admitted to the Bar, on June 24, 1907. He served as justice of the peace of Castoria township, and is now an honored member of the San Joaquin County Bar Association, and of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Bainbridge has been twice married, and he had two children by his first wife. Moire L. Bainbridge is a detective in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and a daughter is Mrs. Lima A. Dahl, of Watsonville. By his second wife he has one child, James Clark Bainbridge. Mr. Bainbridge joined the Truth Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 55, at Stockton, and later was demitted to Farmington Lodge, No. 296. He is also a trustee and member of the Loyal Order of Moose at Stockton.
History of San Joaquin County, California – Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1923
p 1324
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.