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JACOB JACOBSON
A prosperous rancher of San Joaquin
County who owns forty acres of vineyard and alfalfa three miles south of Lodi,
near the Armstrong switch, is Jacob Jacobson.
Possessed of the sturdy ability and enterprise native to his race, a man
of active energy and constant resolution, his success has been steadily
maintained and each year’s efforts have increased in extent and importance
until he is now enjoying the fruits of his honest labor. He was born in Schleswig, Denmark, November
21, 1859, a son of Jacob and Annie (Morse) Jacobson. The father conducted a general merchandise
store in Frederickshoff, Denmark, and lived to be
sixty-five years old, while the mother lived to be eighty years old. They never left their native land where they
reared seven children: Christina, Hans,
Mary, Jorgen, Kathrina are deceased; and Maria
Christina still lives in Denmark; Jacob is the subject of this sketch.
Jacob Jacobson received a grammar
school education in Denmark up to his fourteenth year, when he went to sea on a
sailing vessel, serving four years on the North and Baltic seas on a merchant
marine. He then received notice that he
was to be taken into the Germany navy, so immediately laid plans to come to the
United States. Arriving here he first
settled in Iowa, near the Minnesota line, where he worked for a year on a farm,
then moved across the state line into Minnesota and found employment on a farm
near Leroy. In 1882 he came to
California settling in the Bay district and worked at various kinds of work for
the following ten years.
On September 15, 1892, Mr. Jacobson
was married to Miss Ellen Nicolson, born, reared and educated in Adserballigskov, Denmark, a daughter of Nicola and Ellen
(Christensen) Nicoleisen. Mrs. Jacobson came to California at the age
of nineteen years and made her home in San Francisco; later she lived with her
brother at Hayward and San Leandro, California.
There were four children in her family:
Mary, deceased, Christian resides at Hayward, Nicola
resides at Watsonville, and Ellen, Mrs. Jacobson. After their marriage they resided in Hayward
for a year then in 1893 settled in San Joaquin County where Mr. Jacobson bought
his present ranch of forty acres, where he engaged in the dairy business for
several years. A few years ago he
disposed of his dairy and now carries on a poultry and egg business as a side
line, having about 500 laying hens. When
he purchased his ranch, it was a stubble field; he later set out a vineyard of
fifteen acres, which is now bearing, and in 1922 he has set out ten acres more to young vineyard; he also has twelve acres in alfalfa. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson are the parents of one
daughter, Mary Ella, who is a stenographer in Stockton. In politics Mr. Jacobson is a Republican.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
799. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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