Merced County Biographies

J. W. MAHON

Transcribed by Liz Brase

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        J. W. MAHON arrived in California in 1875 from Tennessee, his native 
state.  He was born at Dyersburg, Dyer County, February 24, 1858, and is the son 
of Rev. W. J. Mahon, now presiding elder of the Merced Methodist Episcopal 
conference in this State, and a resident of Modesto.  Rev. Mr. Mahon has been 
twice married, and the subject of this sketch is a son of the second marriage.  
Young Mahon attended the high schools in Tennessee, and read law in Merced with 
R.H. Ward, Esq.,  and was admitted to the bar of the state in 1882, at Merced, 
where he commenced the practice of his profession, and in 1883 located at 
Bakersfield.  He makes a specialty of the criminal practice branch of his 
profession.  Mr. Mahon stands high in professional circles, and is classed among 
the best criminal lawyers in central California.  He married, in Bakersfield, 
August 20, 1885, Miss Rachel E. Nash, a native of Dyer County, Tennessee, born 
February 22, 1865, and a daughter of John Nash, deceased.  They have two 
children; Ruth, born August 10, 1886; and Jackson H., born August 6, 1889.  Mr 
Mahon is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias.  He is held in the highest 
estimation in the community where he resides.

Memorial & Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, 
California - Chicago, 1892, p 783