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WESLEY DANIELS
A building contractor, who not only
thoroughly understands his business but is especially well posted as to local
conditions, is Wesley Daniels, the senior member of the firm of Messrs. Daniels
& Green of Stockton. He was born
near Hamilton, Ontario, on January 23, 1860, and learning the trade of a
carpenter and millwright, he followed millwrighting in Canada, and also at
Davenport, Iowa, and Peoria, Illinois.
In 1889 he came out to the Pacific Coast, and at Los Angeles he worked
for a couple of years as carpenter. In
1891 he reached Stockton, and he has been here ever since.
For five years, Mr. Daniels worked
for Thomas D. Lewis, and in 1908 he formed a partnership with H. P. Green, as
Daniels & Green, and commenced building by contract. From the beginning, the firm was very
successful; and having once established their reputation for superior,
dependable work, they have seldom or never been idle. They have erected many of the notable
edifices in San Joaquin County, including the office building of the California
Navigation and Improvement Company, and the remodeled Washington and Jackson
schools. They built the North, Weber,
and Hazeltine schools, the Hotel Lincoln and the Taft Hotel, and a two-story
brick block for the City Development Company at the corner of Main and American
avenues. They remodeled the interior of
the Commercial & Savings Bank, and also the City Bank, and built the annex
to the Smith & Lang Block, as well as the Botto
& Brassesco Block and the Marshall Building. They put up the Oneto
and Campodonico Building, and the Flannigan Block,
and are also to be credited with the fine St. Agnes Convent, the Stockton Dry
Goods Company Block, the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Building, the
Meyers Meat Market Block; a house for F. J. Viebrock.
While in Canada, Mr. Daniels was
married to Miss Jessie Kern, a native of that great northern country; and their
particularly fortunate union has been greatly blessed with the birth of four
children: Myrtle, Fred, Wesley J., and Margaret.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1283. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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