Sacramento County
Biographies
JOHN K. REESE
JOHN K. REESE--A native son who is following in the footsteps of his father, the late David Reese, and becoming a man of affairs, and displaying the same traits of character and business acumen, is John K. Reese, rancher and district agent for the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. He was born at Florin, Sacramento County, December 30, 1878, a son of David and Mira L. (Kilgore) Reese, pioneers represented on another page in this work. The fourth in a family of seven children, five of whom are living, John K. Reese was educated in the public school and the high school. After his graduation from high school he entered the University of California and while attending was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta, a national fraternity, as well as the Skull and Keys honor society. He was in his junior year at the university when his father died and he then returned to Sacramento. He engaged in the real estate business and also in farming, raising hops; but after three years the market fell so low that the place has since been devoted to general farming. He is still managing the Leeman ranch. In 1912 Mr. Reese began the insurance business and has been very successful in that field. As stated above, he is the district agent for the Travelers Insurance Company, of Hartford, and to it he devotes his attention and energies.
Mr. Reese was united in marriage in 1915 with Miss Gertrude Leeman, a native of Sacramento, and a daughter of William H. Leeman, and two sons have been born to them, John K., Jr., and Richard.
Mr. Reese was made a Mason in Concord Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., and he belongs to Sacramento Chapter, R. A. M. He is also a member of Sacramento Lodge No. 6, B. P. O. E. He takes an active interest in civic and social matters, and is a member of the Rotary and Sutter Clubs, as well as the Del Paso Country Club.
Mr. Reese is an example of what well-directed energy and application can accomplish, and he is one of the native sons of which the county may well be proud.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 713. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.