Calaveras
County
Biographies
JAMES S. JACK
Those characteristics of the Scotch
race which in many ways have made it predominant wherever it has obtained a
foothold, have been influential upon the fortunes of the family of Jack, of
which James S. Jack, the county clerk, auditor and recorder of Calaveras
County, California, is a representative.
Mr. Jack is a native of the Golden state and was born in Fresno County,
October 20, 1872, a son of James B. and Maria (Uriell)
Jack. His great-grandfather in the
paternal line came early from England to Virginia; and Thomas Jack, his
grandfather, was born there, but passed most of his life in Tennessee. James B. Jack, a son of Thomas Jack and
father of James S. Jack, was born in Tennessee in 1838, and in 1856 at the age
of eighteen years, crossed the plains to California and located in Calaveras
County, where the town of Sheep Ranch has since come into existence but where
there was at that time nothing but a comparatively small mining camp. He mined there, but was not lucky and became
a farmer in San Joaquin County. Later he
was an early settler in Fresno County, where he devoted himself to farming and stock
raising. He died as the result of an
accident November 16, 1895, aged fifty-seven, and his widow, now fifty years
old, lives with her son at San Andreas.
They were married in San Joaquin County in 1865, and had two
children: James S. Jack, the subject of
this sketch; and a daughter Mary, who is now Mrs. E. R. Campbell, of Angel’s
Camp, Calaveras County.
James S. Jack was educated in the
public schools of San Joaquin County and was graduated at the business college
at Stockton in the class of 1890, and after that he engaged in mercantile
business at Angel’s Camp, which he managed successfully from 1891 until
November, 1898, when he was elected to his present office, in which he has
given the greatest satisfaction to his fellow citizens, understanding its
duties thoroughly and treating with the greatest courtesy all who have relations
with him. He is held in high regard as a
businessman and has a wide and valuable acquaintance, and he is especially
popular as a Knight of Pythias.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 563-564. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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