California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

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


THOMAS JACKSON.  Son of Dawson and Josephine Gafney Jackson, was born in Johnson County, 
Iowa, March 7, 1853. In April of that year his parents came across the plains to California, arriving in El 
Dorado County in August of that year. There the family stopped, and his father embarked in mining 
until the spring of 1854, when they moved to Stockton, and in the same year moved to Suisun Valley, 
Solano County, and resided there until 1867, when they moved to Napa County and settled in Capelle 
Valley, where the subject of this sketch remained until 1875. He then came to Chiles Valley and 
located on his present ranch of five hundred and thirty-three acres, where he has since been engaged 
in farming and stock raising. He was married September 15, 1880, to Kansas Bonham, who was born in 
Clark County, Illinois, September 20, 1856.