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JANG TAI

One of the leading representatives of the Chinese race in the Sacramento valley is Jang Tai, who has been engaged in general merchandising in Courtland for half a century. He has today the oldest mercantile establishment in this locality and is one of Courtland’s most highly respected men, having gained his success through honorable and worthy methods. Jang Tai was born in China seventy-six years ago, and there he attended school and was married, there being three sons born to the union. When twenty-two years of age, Jang Tai came to the United States and first located in San Francisco. In 1876 he came to the Sacramento valley, settling in Chinatown, near present Courtland, where he remained until that section was destroyed by fire. He was one of the first to rebuild in the new Chinatown of Courtland and in 1880 he engaged in a general merchandising business, in which he has successfully continued to the present time.

Jang Tai’s wife, who died in China prior to his coming to this country, bore him three sons, Jang Moy, Jang Ngin and Jang Yen. They were brought to this country in their young boyhood and in the public schools of this country completed their educations, which they had begun in their native land. While his father is visiting the land of his birth, Jang Ngin is in charge of the extensive business, which he is ably managing, having been his father’s assistant for many years. There are also eight grandchildren, all of whom were born in the Sacramento valley. Jang Tai is numbered among the most prominent Chinese pioneers of the Sacramento valley and is a man of high personal worth and great influence, commanding the uniform esteem of all who know him.

Transcribed by Debbie Gramlick.

Source: Wooldridge, J.W. Major History of the Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2 Pgs. 265-266. The Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.

Sacramento County Biographies