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JESSE HARDY
For the past twenty-eight years
Jesse Hardy has been a resident of California and since March 1, 1902, has been
identified with the Holt Manufacturing Company in Stockton, where through the
exercise of his native talents and acquired ability, he has risen to the head
of the engineering record department of this well-known and prosperous
concern. He was born in New York, July
11, 1875, and in his native state attended the grammar school; when his family
removed to Rockford, Illinois, he entered high school from which he was duly
graduated. At nineteen years of age,
1894, he arrived in California, where he entered the California College at
Oakland and in 1898 was graduated with the degree of B. S. He then went to Calaveras County, where he
taught school for three years, after which he settled in Stockton and entered
the employ of the Holt Manufacturing Company.
He started as a draftsman and was introduced to thirty employees, only
four of whom now remain with the company, Mr. Hardy being one of the four,
having spent twenty years of continuous services with this company. From draftsman Mr. Hardy was promoted to
chief of the plant, then to the head of the engineering record department. During the World War he was superintendent of
production, having supervision of eighty-five clerks.
Mr. Hardy has the distinction of
making the drawings for the first caterpillar built at the plant, a small
affair named the Pullet. Mr. Hardy is an
active member of Truth Lodge, I. O. O. F. and has passed through all the chairs
of the order; also a member of the Parker Encampment and Canton Ridgley. His course has been characterized by firmness
of purpose, by laudable ambition and unflagging enterprise, and the uniform esteem
with which he is held is given in recognition of his personal worth and
ability.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1508. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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