California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176

ROBERT F. JACK, a successful agriculturist in the vicinity of Parlier, Fresno county, was born in 
Hamilton county, Tenn., February 22, 1854. His father, Robert Jack, was a native of the same state, 
where he engaged as a coal miner until his death. His wife, formerly Jane Martin, was born and 
died in Tennessee. They had a family of one son and two daughters, Robert F. Jack being the 
youngest. He received his education in the common schools, upon the completion of which he came 
to California with a brother-in-law, J. M. Heiskell, arriving in 1869, when he located in San Joaquin 
county. For a time he worked at farming and in 1872 bought land near Oakdale, Stanislaus county, 
which he cultivated for eleven years. In 1883 he came to Fresno county and purchased one hundred 
and sixty acres in the vicinity of Parlier, two miles east of that place and four miles west of Reedley. He 
raised wheat until the organization of the ditch companies, which gave him sufficient water, when 
he devoted the greater part of his land to horticultural interests. He has planted forty acres to vines, 
twenty acres to alfalfa and two acres to trees, the balance of the one hundred and twenty acres which 
he now owns being devoted to the cultivation of hay and grain. He also owns stock in the Growers' 
Winery at Parlier. 

In 1888, at Oakdale, Cal. Mr. Jack was united in marriage with Susan P. Heiskell, a native of Eldorado 
county, Cal., and they have one son.