San Luis Obispo County Biographies

R. E. JACK

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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R. E. JACK, of San Luis Obispo, was born in the State of Maine, in September, 
1841, and very early in life evinced a high order of talent for business. Accord- 
ingly he went to New York, where he was connected with a commercial house on Wall 
street. In 1864 lie came to California and at once engaged in wool-growing. He is 
now the owner of Cholame Ranch of 40,000 acres, but he devotes his time to banking, in 
his city, being cashier of the First National Bank of San Luis Obispo; is also the princi- 
pal of the Bank of Paso Robles, in that town, the Bank of Santa Maria and the Bank of 
Lompoc in the county of Santa Barbara. Mr. Jack represents the progressive element 
in business, and is prominent in all matters connected with the welfare and prosperity of 
San Luis Obispo. In politics he is a leader, and at the present time is President of tlie 
city council. 

He was married in 1872, to a daughter of Colonel Joseph Hubbard Hollister, und has a 
family of four children. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.