Santa Clara County
Biographies
JOHN GEORGE JAGELS
JOHN GEORGE JAGELS. Jagels
Landing, three miles north of Mountainview on the
bay, bespeaks the enterprise and business ability of its owner,
John George Jagels, who purchased the
surrounding forty acres in 1880, and has since combined general farming with
the management of large shipping interests. The landing is a small community in
itself, and the center of considerable activity in the hay and grain line. Mr. Jagels has built a warehouse for the storage and handling
of his products, and owns two schooners, the Nellie Rich, of ninety tons, and
the Tread Naught, of seventy-five tons, which carry the hay and grain to San
Francisco and other seaport towns. The coming and going of the puffing little
schooners adds an element of interest to the otherwise quiet community, and has
established for it a reputation of merit as a busy mart of trade. Mr. Jagels also owns and manages a fruit ranch of twenty acres
on Fremont avenue, Mountainview,
and has entered as heartily into the science of horticulture as he has into the
business of grain and hay raising and shipping. He possesses the grit and
determination which insure success, and the integrity and worth which win
respect and confidence.
Mr. Jagels is one of those
enterprising German-Americans who brought substantial characteristics with them
to the United States, and who owe much to the practical training in a typical
farm home of the fatherland. Born near Bremen, Hanover, Germany,
December 25, 1852, he is a son of Henry and Adelaide (Harges) Jagels, and the second in
a family of six sons and one daughter. Educated in the common schools, and
experienced in farm work, he went to London, England, in 1868, and after
working in a factory at unsatisfactory wages embarked for Quebec, Canada, and
thereafter traveled over the whole of Canada. Bringing up in Chicago, Ill., he
worked on a near-by farm for about four months, and still feeling dissatisfied
with his prospects, came to the coast in 1873, locating at old Mountainview. Until 1880 he worked on a ranch in Santa
Clara county, and on June 22, 1880,
purchased his present farm of one hundred and forty acres. Since coming here he
has married Eliza Meyers, a native Hanover, Germany, and of which union
three children have been born, Richard, Georgie, and
Annie. Mr. Jagels has the interest in education
which is shared by the majority of his countrymen of the more intelligent
class, and for several years has been a member of the school board of Mountainview. He is a Democrat in politics, but has always
been averse to holding office. Fraternally he is associated with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Red Men and the Grange, all of Mountainview, and in religion he is identified with the
Lutheran Church. The business, fraternal, and social associations of Mr. Jagels are of the highest order, and indicate a man of high
ideals and strict integrity. He has no one but himself to thank for the success
he has made of life, and as such is deserving of sincere praise and
appreciation.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 03 July 2016.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages
1244-1245. The Chapman Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2016 Marie Hassard.