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


JOHN W. JACKSON. The Jackson family, represented in Fresno county by John W. Jack- 
son, a vineyardist and orchardist, came to the United States from England during the eight- 
eenth century, a part of the company who followed John Wesley into the western wilderness. 
The first of the name on American soil are supposed to have settled in the southern states, as it 
is there that the first ancestral records are traced. John W. Jackson was born in Calhoun county, 
Ala., June 12, 1847, a son of John W., a native of Georgia, who was likewise the son of another 
John W. John W. Jackson of Georgia married Lydia Clements of South Carolina and engaged 
in farming until his death at the age of seventy-seven years. 

When seven years old Mr. Jackson accompanied his parents to a new home in the state of 
Arkansas, where the family remained for seven years. They then located in Texas, where he 
grew to manhood, and following his early training, engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1893. 
In that year he came to California and located in Fresno county on a ranch of twenty acres 
seven and a half miles southeast of the city of Fresno and two and a half northwest of Fowler. 
This property he has since devoted to the cultivation of various fruits, much of his attention 
being given to a vineyard. While a resident of Texas, in January, 1870, he married Nancy H. 
Millemon, a native of that state, and to them were born the following children : Ida M., now 
the wife of W. W. Varnell, located on a ranch about a mile from Mr. Jackson's home ; Nolan 
S., who married Cassie Rice, a native of Canada ; and Eunice, the wife of Dr. Frank Wolf, of Fres- 
no. Mr. Jackson is a Democrat politically, and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South.