Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE J. HANLON
GEORGE J. HANLON - A young man who is aiding in the development and upbuilding of the ranching interests of Sacramento County is George J. Hanlon, a native son, born on the American River fourteen miles east of Sacramento, October 1, 1885. His father John Hanlon was also a native of Sacramento County, while Grandfather George Hanlon was born in Iowa, coming to California in the early fifties and settling at Clarksville. He remained a few years, and then established his headquarters at Fourteen-Mile House, from which place he engaged in teaming to Nevada. He was very successful and became the owner of several large ranches. His life history is recorded more fully in the biography of his daughter, Mrs. Georgiana McDermott.
John Hanlon was the next to the youngest of four children and learned farming and cattle-raising, in which endeavor he was very successful. However, he was not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his labors for he was stricken by death in August, 1886, aged only twenty-six years. The mother of our subject was Kittie Studarus, born in Sacramento County, whose father, John Studarus, was an early pioneer farmer and stockman. She passed away in Sacramento in November, 1922.
George J. Hanlon was the only child and after his father's death was reared by his Grandfather Hanlon, receiving his education in the public schools and San Jose high school, from which he was graduated, and afterwards he attended school in San Francisco. Removing to Minden, Nev., with his mother, where they owned a ranch, he engaged in raising alfalfa for three years. Returning to Santa Clara County he purchased an orchard near Campbell and became a fruit-grower for nine years, during which time he was a member of the California Prune Growers' Association. He was the owner of lands in Sacramento County. He sold his holdings in Santa Clara County in 1920, and returned to his native county and has since devoted his time to looking after his different ranches and at present he is developing and improving his Cosumnes ranch, comprising 680 acres, 350 acres of which is valley land and is under irrigation. With others he has taken out and constructed a ditch from the Cosumnes of sufficient capacity to irrigate about 1,000 acres of land. He rents both his Deer Creek and American River ranches.
In 1914 in Eldorado County, Mr. Hanlon married Miss Florence Celio, a native of that county, a daughter of Frank and Amelia Celio, also a native son and daughter, who were cattle-growers, as were the grandparents. Mrs. Hanlon received her education in historical old Placerville.
Mr. Hanlon is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and is a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in Sacramento, while Mrs. Hanlon is a member of the Eastern Star.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 801-802. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.