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JOHN W. GARRISON
An enterprising business man of
Ripon, John W. Garrison is proprietor of the Model Market and is also the
constable for Ripon Township. He was
born near Ripon, California, November 16, 1888 the eldest son and second child
of a family of eight born to his parents, John and Eliza (Fredericks)
Garrison. The father was born in
Evansville, Illinois, February 18, 1853 a son of William Pinckey
and Amelia (White) Garrison, both natives of Indiana. Grandfather Garrison was a veteran of the
Civil War. At twenty-nine years of age
John Garrison left his home in Illinois and came west to California and
directly to Ripon, where he worked as a farm laborer. Here he met and was married to Miss Eliza
Fredericks, a daughter of John Fredericks, a California pioneer, deceased. The parents now reside on a ranch near Ripon
where they engage in general farming.
John W. Garrison attended the San
Joaquin district school near Ripon until he was seventeen years of age, then found work on ranches in the neighborhood of his home. He then determined to learn the meat business
and spent one year in a retail shop in Stockton; then returning to Ripon he
entered the employ of the Ripon Meat Company, and was also interested in grain
farming until 1917; then he conducted a retail route through the south San
Joaquin district, and two years ago bought the Model Market at Ripon, which he
has improved, and the business has steadily increased in volume. In May, 1922 Mr. Garrison took as his partner
A. L. Stewart and the association has already proved of advantage to the
company. The company operates two retail
meat routes over fifty miles in length, which is a
great accommodation to their customers and a valuable asset to the company.
The marriage of Mr. Garrison
occurred at Modesto September 12, 1912 which united him with Miss Anita Bailey,
a native of Salida, California, a daughter of J. D. Bailey, a retired pioneer
rancher now living at Ripon. Mr. and
Mrs. Garrison are the parents of two children, Maxine and Violet. In June, 1921 Mr. Garrison was appointed
constable for Ripon Township and in 1922 succeeded himself to the same office
unopposed. He is a Republican in
politics and fraternally is a member of Mt. Horeb Lodge, I. O. O. F. and the
Ripon Merchants’ Association.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1335. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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