Merced County Biographies

JERRY J. JIRSA

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        The well known contracting painter and interior decorator of Merced, 
Jerry J. Jirsa, was born in Bohemia, now Czecho-Slovakia, on March 25, 
1877. He came with his parents to the United States in 1880, and located in 
Chicago, where he was educated in the public schools. He then learned the 
trade of painter, and after completing his apprenticeship, took up the painting 
business in Chicago and followed it there for a time. He then went to Idaho 
Falls, Idaho, and engaged in his work there for ten years.
        In March, 1920, Mr. Jirsa located in Merced, and for the past two years 
has been engaged in business for himself, and has met with the success which 
always comes to a man who knows his work thoroughly and is interested in the 
artistic as well as the commercial side of it. He has painted the new gymnasium 
at the high school, the auditorium, and the cafeteria at the manual arts school, 
as well as a number of residences and apartments, and he specializes in interior 
decorating, paper work, etc. During the busy season he employs a number of men, 
but does all the planning and laying out of the work himself, and his years of 
experience have made him expert in his line, getting the best results 
obtainable, and adding to the pleasure in life derived from beautiful 
surroundings.
        The marriage of Mr. Jirsa united him with Miss Nellie Lymath, and seven 
children have blessed their union: Robert, Louise, Vera, Helen, Madalene, 
Leslie, and Mildred. Fraternally, Mr. Jirsa belongs to the Modern Woodmen and to 
the Eagles. He is deeply interested in Merced and Merced County, and shows his 
public spirit in supporting civic and moral advancement in his community, and is 
most highly esteemed as a citizen of real worth.
 
History of Merced County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1925
page 861-862