Alameda
County
Biographies
DANIEL
JACKSON
DANIEL JACKSON, the manager of the
Jackson Granger Dairy Company, is conceded to be a man of good business
ability, excellent judgment, and untiring energy, and as such has contributed
no little to the success of this enterprise, which is located at Decoto,
Washington township, Alameda county. He
was born in Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, September 18, 1854, a son of
Thomas and grandson of William, both of whom were also natives of the same
town, the latter being the first white male child born there, his birth
occurring about 1812. From sturdy
eastern ancestors he inherited many sterling traits of character, and in
Somerset, where he spent his entire life, and died at the age of ninety-two
years, he became a prominent and influential citizen. He was a cabinet maker by trade. A musician of no little talent, he served in
this capacity during the Civil war.
The boyhood of Daniel Jackson was passed
in the town of his nativity and its vicinity, where he engaged in farming upon
attaining suitable age. His mother,
Margaret Poorman, also a native of the same location in Ohio, having died in
Somerset at the age of twenty-nine years, he came with his father to California
in 1869, and as he was the only child he and his father made their home
together until the marriage of the former.
Upon their arrival in the west they located at Sacramento, and followed
ranching pursuits. In 1902 the elder man
established a blacksmith shop in Sacramento county which he still
conducts. He served as a one-hundred-day
man in the Civil war, being chief musician, and in one skirmish was wounded
three times. He is now seventy-one years
old, but is still active and energetic, and eager to continue in the discharge
of his work. Until 1880 Daniel Jackson farmed
in the neighborhood of Sacramento. He
then came to San Francisco, and had a quarter interest in an extensive dairy of
about two hundred cows, his principal duty being to drive a wagon. For about four years he continued in this
business, when he sold out and went to Placer county, where he set out a fruit
farm of fifteen acres. He devoted his
time to this enterprise for four years, but losing his health he was forced to
dispose of this property at considerable financial loss. In 1890 he went to Alameda and bought a
teaming business, in which occupation he continued for four years. Disposing of that interest he went to
Alvarado and worked in a dairy and owned a small dairy of his own. He was foreman of the Alvarado dairy until
September, 1903, when he formed a partnership with Farley B. Granger in
the dairy business, the style of the firm name being Jackson-Granger Dairy
company. They have about three hundred
and twenty cows and their property is thoroughly equipped for the successful
conduct of their enterprise. They have
three large cow barns, modern in every detail, the dimensions of one being
146x130 feet, and acknowledged to be the finest cow barn in the county. They also lease about three hundred and forty
acres of land.
February 18, 1877, Mr. Jackson
was united in marriage with Emma F. Cronemiller, a native of Placer
county, Cal., and they are the parents of three children: Clara, Mary and Margery, all at home. Politically Mr. Jackson adheres to the
principles advocated in the platform of the Republican party.
Transcribed
by Donna Toole.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 796-799. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2015 Donna
Toole.
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