Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS.
MARGARET A. JOURNEY
MRS. MARGARET A. JOURNEY.--A woman of much capability who is making a success of her poultry ranch at Galt, where she has resided for the past five years, is Mrs. Margaret A. Journey, a native of Waukesha, Wis., whose parents, Peter and Caroline Hansen, were both natives of Denmark. The father, who was an architect and builder, died at the age of fifty-six, the mother passing away at forty-eight. Mrs. Journey, who was their only child, attended school at Waukesha and Milwaukee and then took training as a nurse in the Wisconsin General Hospital at Milwaukee.
Coming to California with friends in 1905, Mrs. Journey was married at Martinez, on June 15, 1908, to Richard W. Journey, who was born at Quincy, Ill., and came to California around the Horn with his father, two brothers and a sister in 1863, being only two years old at the time. His father, Jefferson Journey, settled at Brighton, Sacramento County, and there Richard was reared. At the time of his marriage he was farming at Merced and later they moved to Turlock and engaged in raising cantaloupes. In 1918 they moved to Galt and purchased four acres at the north end of Oak Street, and there Mrs. Journey still makes her home, having developed it into a successful poultry ranch. Mr. Journey’s life came to a tragic end on June 20, 1922, when he was killed by the Southern Pacific train at Galt. Besides his widow, he was survived by three children born of his first marriage with Miss Minerva Spurgeon, a native of Illinois. They are: Mrs. Hazel Pearl Blohm of Sacramento; Arthur B., an engineer on the Southern Pacific; Mrs. Ora O. Johnson of Sacramento. Mr. Journey was a trustee of the district school at Merced during his residence there and was one of the oldest members of the Woodmen of the World at Turlock. In her political affiliations Mrs. Journey is a Republican. She is a member of the Ladies of the Maccabees at Turlock.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 913.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.