Sacramento County
Biographies
JACK JOSEPH
MESSNER
JACK JOSEPH MESSNER.--The model livery, for which Sacramento, despite the development of the automobile, is still noted, is well illustrated in the livery and sales stables of Jack Joseph Messner, a native son, who was born at Sacramento, so that he has always been infused with the progressive capital spirit. On February 20, 1889, he entered the family of Edward George and Katherine (Phillips) Messner, and grew up under the guidance of a father of such principles and character that he was for forty years the trusted assistant to Weinstock, Lubin & Company, closing a very useful and honorable career in 1921. He contracted delivery and was also in the transfer business. Mrs. Messner is still living, esteemed by all who know her.
Jack Joseph Messner attended the Christian Brothers College, from which he was duly graduated, going out into the world with a preparation such as any young man might covet; and then he engaged in the livery business, starting with several advantages. He studied the needs of his customers from every angle, and not only made it his ambition to be ready for emergencies, but tried to anticipate his patron’s wants; and now he has fifteen head of horses, to hire, and considerable live-stock. He is naturally fond of horses, and he is inclined toward the outdoor sport generally; and loving Nature, and the many advantages of this most favored section of the great Golden State, he is decidedly public-spirited, and ready at all times, in every way, to boost for the city and county in which he lives, operates and prospers. He owns his father’s old home, where he was born and raised, and here he has livery and boarding stables.
Mr. Messner was married in 1911, to Miss Alice Bastian, a native daughter and a member of an old California family; and they have four children, Jack, Loraine, Joe and June. He belongs to the Sacramento Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West; and as a practical Catholic, he is a member of the Knights of Columbus, of the third degree.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 961.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.