San Joaquin County Biographies


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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, Cal., November 16, 1888, the eldest son and second child of a family of 
eight children born to his parents, John and Eliza (Fredericks) Garrison. The 
father was born in Ellisville, Ill., 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, Cal., 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.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p 1335         
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.