Ventura
County
Biographies
JOSEPH B. KERRICK
J. B. Kerrick, chief of police and
city tax collector of Oxnard since 1929, belongs to a family that has been
represented in California since the pioneer days of 1850. He was born in Fillmore, California, on April
12, 1892, a son of James J. and Laura A. (Crew) Kerrick. His brother, T. M. Kerrick, is engaged in
mining in Mexico.
The career of J. B. Kerrick has been
one of varied and exciting experiences.
For some years he lived the life of a cowboy on the range. He was an Arizona deputy sheriff in 1912 and
the following year was appointed ranger at Sonora, Arizona, while subsequently
his territory was enlarged to include Gila County, that state, where he
continued in office until 1924. Mr. Kerrick
won much praise for the fearless discharge of his duties in this connection and
indeed he has long enjoyed an unassailable reputation for unflinching courage
and honesty. It was in 1929 that he
assumed his present duties as chief of police and tax collector of Oxnard,
California, and in him the city has found an official who cannot be
bribed. Though a menace to the
law-breaker, he is nevertheless a man of quiet, kindly and modest disposition
and domestic tastes who has attracted to himself a host of warm friends. Fraternally he is identified with the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belonging to Lodge No. 1443 at Oxnard.
Mr. Kerrick is the father of two
sons, Jimmie and Joe, who are fourteen and twelve years of age,
respectively. The former is a high
school student.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 149, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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