San Joaquin County Biographies


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RONALD B. HALEY.
 
        For the past thirty-five years Ronald B. Haley has been identified with 
industrial interests of Stockton, and as president of the Peerless Milling 
Company he is controlling one of the largest productive industries of the city. 
A native of Canada, he was born on Prince Edward Island, March 7, 1867, and in 
December, 1886, when nineteen years of age, he arrived in Stockton. Entering the 
employ of the Crown Flouring Mill Company, he continued with that firm for 
twenty-four years, gaining a comprehensive knowledge of the business, and during 
the last year of that period was connected with the feed department. In May, 
1911, he became a partner of Frank A. Guernsey, who was then operating the 
Peerless Milling Company's plant, which had been built originally for a blending 
mill in which the farmers could blend their grain. The venture did not prove a 
success and Mr. Guernsey converted it into a feed mill, later withdrawing from 
the firm, and subsequently Mr. Haley had several business associates, his 
present partner being Ralph C. Jeanelle, who acts as secretary of the company, 
while he is filling the office of president. Under his capable management the 
business has enjoyed an extremely rapid growth, the present output being 700 
tons of feed monthly, while it originally amounted to but one ton per day. They 
cater to both the wholesale and retail trades, the former being taken care of by 
traveling salesmen, whose territory extends within a radius of 250 miles from 
Stockton. In their retail operations they deal direct with the farmers and owing 
to the superior quality of their output and their reliability in all commercial 
transactions the business has grown to one of large proportions. They 
manufacture the Laymore, Growmore and Raisemore brands of poultry feed, the last 
named being prepared especially for baby chicks, while their stockfoods are 
known as the Morepork and Moremilk, the former being for hogs and the latter for 
cows. Mr. Haley was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Sutter, a native of 
Wisconsin, and a distant relative of General Sutter. Mr. Haley has never been 
unmindful of the duties of citizenship and has served as a member of the police 
and fire commission under Mayor George Hudson, rendering valuable service to his 
city in that connection. He is a member of the Young Men's Institute and is also 
identified with the Stockton Golf and Country Club, the Elks, and the Foresters 
of America. His business career has been marked by continuous advancement and a 
large industrial enterprise stands as a monument to his progressive spirit and 
administrative powers.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1299       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.