Sacramento County
Biographies
JOHN W. ODELL
JOHN W. ODELL.--Sacramento is justly famous, not only as one of the most attractive gardening centers of the Golden State, but also as a city of superior markets, among which must surely be included the poultry and produce headquarters established and so successfully managed by John W. Odell, who came here from Missouri, bringing with him the valuable traditions of that great agricultural state, and who has done what he could, since making this the home of his adoption, to assist others to enjoy California home life to the full.
John Odell was born on May 27, 1883, the son of Cicero H. and Jeannette (Fletcher) Odell, who migrated to California when our subject was a child, and located in Sonoma County, at Sebastopol. There John Odell enjoyed the advantages of the grammar and the high schools, and grew up in the comfortable surroundings of a dairy farm. His father and mother were progressive folks, infused with Eastern spirit, and ready to contribute what they could to the development of the more promising West; and they left a record of great usefulness. John helped his father on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age, and then went into a grocery store, where he clerked for years. In 1917, he came to Sacramento, and established the Sacramento Poultry and Produce Market, in the conducting of which he has been successful. He is a Republican, in matters of national political import, although a non-partisan booster for the city and county in which he lives, operates and prospers.
In 1904, Mr. Odell was married to Miss Coosa Saunders, of Texas, the ceremony occurring at Sebastopol; she was reared in California, and so is in sympathy with the ideals and spirit of California institutions. Two children, Lura and Mattie, attend the Sacramento high school.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 822. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.