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EDWARD H. JACK
EDWARD H. JACK, one of the
first-class farmers of Castoria Township, was born in Switzerland County,
Indiana, April 29, 1823, a son of Samuel and Rosanna (Hampton) Jack, natives of
Gallatin County, Kentucky, and of old Kentucky families. The Hamptons are of
old Virginia families. Samuel Jack died March 30, 1834; and Rosanna (Hampton)
Jack died February 2, 1867.
Mr. Jack, the subject of this article,
grew up in Kentucky, attended school at Burlington, Boone County, and after
attaining manhood engaged in general mercantile business, the manufacture of
tobacco, etc., for some years. He afterward followed steam boating on the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers from Cincinnati to New Orleans until 1855, when he
removed to Chillicothe, Peoria County, Illinois, and for two years engaged in
the grain and lumber business, in partnership with Henry Truitt. In February,
1856, he married Miss Annie W. Moss, a daughter of Captain W. S. Moss, founder
of the San Francisco Examiner. She was born in Peoria County, May 18,
1836, about a month after her parents had arrived at that place from
Switzerland County, Indiana. After marriage Mr. Jack moved to the farm in
Richwood Township, near Mossville, Illinois, where he remained until March,
1863, and then purchased an interest in the distillery firm of Moss, Bradley
& Co., at Peoria, and removed with his family to that city, where he has
since resided; but he sold out his interest in the distillery.
In 1883 Mr. Jack came to California, and purchased
the ranch where he now resides. The home place now consists of 284 acres; of
which he has ten acres adjoining the river and eighty acres in another
locality, and 800 acres near Stockton. Up to the time when he left Peoria he
was a director of the gas-light company of that city, and he still holds stock
therein. He was also a member of the Bridge Company there for a number of
years, and a director of the First National Bank of Peoria, which he had
assisted in commencing. He was one of the founders of the Peoria Board of Trade
and is still a stockholder. He still has landed interests in Peoria city and
Peoria and McLean counties, and also in Chicago. He first invested in this
county in 1882 and built here in 1883.
His children are: Minnie H., wife of
Jerome E. Young, now of San Francisco, Edward M., who died in this county, and
also a lawyer by profession, having been educated in the Chicago Law School;
William S., who resides in this county; Annie Emily, wife of Harry Baum, of
Bloomington, Illinois; Lile Angela, wife of William Howe, of Chicago, who is a
son of F. A. Howe, of the Grand Truck Railroad; Noel H. Jack, who is attending
the military school at San Mateo; and Rosa Choate, at school at Berkeley. Mrs.
Jack died in January, 1889.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 558. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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