California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


CHRIS JORGENSEN, JR.� A young man who is now reaping the re- 
ward for his early application to general farming and in particular to viticul- 
ture, is Chris Jorgensen, Jr., the son of the supervisor who is also represented 
in this work. He has a valuable little ranch where he is experimenting and 
developing in such a manner as to enlarge both his estate and his experience, 
and where, while satisfying himself, he is pointing the way to those who, as 
well-wishing competitors, watch with interest the outcome of his energetic 
efforts. A native Californian, proud of his association with the great Pacific 
commonwealth, Mr. Jorgensen was born at West Park, in Fresno County, on 
August 20, 1887, the son of a well-known early settler, and on his father's 
well-kept farm he grew up. He attended the public schools, and then he went 
to the Fresno Business College, from which he entered Grand View College 
at Des Moines, Iowa. During the thirteen months that he spent in that state, 
he also worked with a contractor and builder, and so mastered some of 
the important practical problems of daily work. On his return, he assisted his 
father as a rancher and viticulturist. 

In 1912, Mr. Jorgensen bought his present place of forty acres three 
miles west of Fresno, at the corner of Whites Bridge Road and Braly Ave- 
nue, and soon after began to set out a vineyard and an orchard. Now he has 
three acres of peaches, while the balance of the acreage is given up to mus- 
cat, Sultana and Thompson seedless grapes. 

In Fresno, Mr. Jorgensen was married to Miss Daisy Jepson, a 
native of South Dakota, whose father was Chris Jepson, who was born in 
Denmark, but who migrated to the United States and for a while resided in 
the Middle West, later coming out to Dakota, and now living at Del Rey 
where he is a successful horticulturist. Mr. and Mrs. Jorgensen have two 
children: Harriett and Kenneth. 

Independent in politics, although inclined to Democratic principles, Mr. 
Jorgensen is active in all that would promote the best interests of the locality. 
He is a live member and stockholder in the California Peach Growers, Inc., 
and a member of the California Associated Raisin Company. He is a 
public-spirited citizen, whose own success is calculated to advance the in- 
terests of the community.