Yolo-Alameda-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Luft, John Christian 1863 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

JOHN CHRISTIAN LUFT

    Davis, Yolo county, boasts no more substantial and devoted citizen than John
C. Luft, who, though not a native of the United States, ever since his
immigration to the new world has taken the deepest interest in matters municipal
as well as social. He was born at Husum, Sleswiek-Holstein, Germany, September
11, 1863, and upon finishing his education became an apprentice to a blacksmith,
serving the customary four years. At the age of nineteen, alone and unaided, he
came to America, where he gradually acquired the competency which is his today.
For a year after his arrival in this country he worked in the shops of the John
Deere Plow Company, Moline, Ill., and at the close of that period, having saved
a sufficient sum with which to continue his journey west, he came to California.
Arriving in 1883 in Livermore, Alameda county, he worked at his trade for a
time, after which he removed to Dixon, Solano county, where for eight years he
worked at his trade. In 1893 he came to Davis and purchased his present building
and established the blacksmith shop which he now operates, the excellent
training which he received in his native land enabling him to perform the most
exacting and difficult work in his line. Besides doing a general shoeing and
repair business he builds carriages and plows with a skill which is recognized
and sought throughout the county. He owns not only his well-equipped shop, but a
comfortable home and five lots as well, and it is to his credit that not once
has he changed his location or failed in his work since his arrival at Davis,
while many of his neighbors have started in business only to abandon their
enterprises later.

    In 1893 Mr. Luft married Miss Etta Frittz, a native of Lake county, Cal.,
and into their home were born the following children: John E., Oliver F., Maud
L. and Lawrence. Mr. Luft is a member of the Odd Fellows and since 1904 has
occupied a place on the school board, which he also served as clerk two years,
and at the last election was unanimously chosen to continue the office for the
regular term of three years.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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