Santa
Clara County
Biographies
LOUIS JOHN JACKSON
The dried fruit and nut industry of Santa Clara county has a well informed and stanch conserver of its best interests in Louis John Jackson, a resident of the state since 1889, and since June, 1902, the manager of the San Jose branch of the large shipping and packing house of the J.B. Inderrieden Company. This enterprise is one of the most extensive as well as best known of its kind in this part of California, having ample facilities for packing and drying, and being equipped with the latest and most modern machinery. Its products find their way to all parts of America and Europe, and have a reputation for unchanging excellence commensurate with the high standing and ability of the men directing its affairs. Mr. Jackson's responsibility is a large one, taxing his ingenuity, his knowledge, and his resources, but he is fully equal to the task, and succeeds in placing the business before the public with corresponding large returns.
Mr. Jackson is the only member of his family who came to the coast. He was born on a farm three miles from Montreal, Canada, September 29, 1867, and is one of four survivors of the seven children of John and Adahsie (Holland) Jackson, natives of Canada and Maine respectively. The family characteristics are those of Scotland, from whence came the paternal grandfather, John, settling on a farm near Montreal, when that city claimed many less inhabitants than at present. He lived to be an old man, and was the exemplar of a sturdy and religious stock, his son John inheriting his farm, as well as his ability and conscientiousness. The latter still occupies the old homestead near Montreal, and for years was a prominent figure of the town of St. Paul, which grew up on his farm, and of which he was mayor for several years. He is now sixty-seven years old, and his wife is but a few years his junior, but both are hale and hearty, possessing good memories, and enjoying reminiscences concerning the early days when their fathers were the pioneers and substantial men of the same community. The maternal grandfather, William Holland, was a lumberman of Maine, and in time transferred his business to near Montreal, where the two families became great friends.
Louis John Jackson was educated in the public schools of Montreal, at the Commercial Academy, and at the Montreal Polytechnic School, where he completed the two years' course in civil engineering. In 1889 he took a six months' sojourn in California, and returned to Pennsylvania to engage as superintendent of construction for the Pennsylvania Railroad. This responsibility extended over a year, and in 1891 he was again in California, and in San Jose, interested in the fruit business with the Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange. For a year he had charge of the shipping and receiving department, and in 1893 was promoted to the position of superintendent of the warehouse, in charge of the receiving, packing and shipping for the concern. He next became identified with the firm of which he is now manager, and which presents large opportunities for future usefulness and advancement. Mr. Jackson is a Republican in politics, and fraternally is connected with the Knights of the Maccabees, of which he is past officer, and is a member of the St. Clair Club. The Jackson home is presided over by Mrs. Jackson, and its hospitality and geniality are well known to a large circle of friends. Mrs. Jackson, who was formerly Mabel Harding, is a product of the cultured east, and was born in Boston, Mass. She is the mother of four children: Ethel, Raymond, Ralph and Helen.
Transcribed
8-26-15 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Page 736. The Chapman Publishing
Co., Chicago, 1904.
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