Sacramento County
Biographies
JOSEPH C. CRUMP
J. C. CRUMP.—A progressive rancher
whose prosperity serves as an index of his experience and developed natural
ability, is J. C. Crump, who owns some eighty choice acres on rich Grand
Island, while he enjoys home life in charming Isleton. He was born in
Malone, Franklin County.
N. Y., on March 15, 1863, the son of David and Mary Crump, farmer folk who made
an impress on the locality in which they lived and operated. Mr. Crump was
a native of Canada, coming from Toronto,
and lived to be seventy years old. Mrs. Crump also first saw the light at
Malone, and came from an old, substantial New York
family and she saw her ninety-third year, ending her days in
comfort. David Crump came out to California for the
first time in 1861, but returned again to the East; and in 1867 he came back to
California, bringing his family with him, and settled at
Clarksburg. He purchased 450
acres of land on Merritt Island
before the days of reclamation work and for a few
years farmed there. He also owned 156 acres now known as the Strautman ranch in Sacramento
County. He sold both of these
ranches and went to Pendleton, Ore.,
where he lived nine years; and on returning, took up his residence again at Clarksburg,
where he passed away.
J.
C. Crump is the youngest of a family of four sons and three
daughters. David served in a New York
regiment during the Civil War and was honorably discharged. He came to California
and was accidentally drawn into a lake in this county while hunting. He
made shore, but died of the intense cold and exposure. Theodore served in
a New York regiment throughout the Civil War and he died
in Washington. Abraham died
in Rio Vista; Lydia, Mrs. Neil Hogaboom, died at Clarksburg
and Jeanette is also deceased. Mary is Mrs. King, of Colusa.
Mr.
Crump went to public school at Clarksburg
until he was twelve years old, and then began work for his own support. At
first, he did odd jobs, but finally he took up veterinary surgery, and under
the guidance of an old, experienced veterinary, obtained a thoroughly practical
knowledge of horses and domestic animals, and this scientific work he followed
for twenty-seven years in the delta islands, during which time he afforded much
relief to the dumb creatures in his care, and also aided the farmer materially
in saving and caring for his beasts.
Then
Mr. Crump went back to farming, and purchased eighty acres of asparagus land a
few miles above Isleton, on Grand Island,
and he still owns this property. He also leased a ranch of 187˝ acres, on Twitchell Island,
devoted to the cultivation of asparagus and the raising of truck
vegetables. He is a Democrat, favoring the old party that has so long
championed state rights and the privilege of the honest, law-abiding individual
to do all and whatever he pleases that is right. Since 1891 he has resided
in Isleton with his family in a residence he built.
At
Sacramento, on April 18, 1888, Mr. Crump was married to
Miss Alice Feran, who was born on Merritt
Island, the daughter of Henry and Lucina
Feran. Her father was a farmer and an early
settler, who lived to be sixty-five years old. They had three sons and two
daughters. Frank died from lock-jaw; then came
Jefferson Davis, and after him, George; Mrs. Crump was the fourth in the order
of birth; while Ida lived but six years. Mrs. Feran
saw her seventieth year. Alice Feran attended
the schools on Merritt Island, and
she has had two children of her own. Ethel E., born on her father’s
birthday, in 1890, is now Mrs. William de Back; and Henry Guy lives in San
Francisco. He served in the World War for over
eighteen months. He is now a captain navigating in San
Francisco Bay and the Sacramento
River. Fraternally, Mr. Crump is a member if Isleton Lodge
No. 108, I. O. O. F., and is a past grand. He has belonged to the Asparagus
Growers’ Association since the time of its organization, and is also a member
of the California Federation of Farmers.
Transcribed 7-19-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 964-965. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.