Sacramento
County
Biographies
MALLET CASE JACKSON
Mallet Case Jackson was born in Jackson
County, Iowa, March 7, 1845, son of Harry J. and Catharine (Kennedy)
Jackson. He made his home with his
parents in Iowa until 1861, when he came with them to California.
The trip was accomplished in exactly five months. They located in Sacramento.
He followed farming the first ten years.
In 1872 he bought a farm of 200 acres about a mile and a quarter west of Florin, and seven miles from Sacramento, just east of the upper Stockton road.
For the next five years he ran a windmill and box factory, since which
time he has been building windmills, and also a contractor and farmer. In the winter of 1877 his factory burned
down. Before that he seldom had less
than eight or ten men employed, and average about $5,000 worth of work a year,
sometimes ranging as high as $7,000. He
still manufactures windmills, making the Jackson mill, his own invention, patented April,
1879. He has put up about 400 of them in
this county, it being about the only one used about Florin, where he lives. It is a good mill, does excellent work, and
gives entire satisfaction. He has been
at that business for the past sixteen or seventeen years. He also does all kinds of manufacturing work,
and can make almost anything that a person could want. Mr. Jackson was married January
9, 1880, to Mary
E. Quinn, a native of New York State.
She died December 6, 1880, the mother of one child, Annie Mary,
born November 20, 1880. He was again
married March 6, 1882 to Laura E. Dodson, his present wife. They have had one child, Marion Raymond, born
March
9 1886. Mrs. Jackson was born in Missouri, March 24, 1860, and is the daughter of Marcus H. and
Mary Dodson. When she was two years old
the family came to California, and settled in El Dorado County, where she was principally raised. Mr. Jackson is a member of Florin Lodge, No.
130, P. of H., and of the Elk Grove Lodge, No. 274, I. O. O F., having joined
the lodge in 1887.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An
Illustrated History of Sacramento County,
California. Page 522. Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
©
2005 Karen Pratt.