California Biographies, San Joaquin Valley

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 NELSON POOL. As a successful farmer John Nelson Pool has done much toward the agricultural 
development of Fresno county. He is located on a ranch a mile and a half east of Fowler, and engaged 
at present in horticultural pursuits. Born in Bond county, Ill., August 12, 1850, he is a son of Alexander 
Pool. The latter was a native of Hardin county, Tenn., where his birth occurred December 15, 1824, his 
father, William Pool, of North Carolina, having brought his family to Illinois in 1829 and located in Bond 
county, where he engaged in farming until his death. Alexander Pool came to California in November, 
1874, and located near Isleton, Sacramento county, where he farmed until his death in 1879. His wife, 
formerly Martha Ann Myatt, was a native of Hardin county, Tenn., whose parents removed to Illinois 
and spent the balance of their lives. Mr. Pool and and his wife, became the parents of twelve children, 
three sons and nine daughters, of whom two sons and three daughters are deceased. 

The fourth child in order of birth in the family of his parents, John Nelson Pool received his education 
in the common schools of Illinois, after which he engaged with his father in farming. He came to 
California with the latter in 1874 and located near Isleton, on the Sacramento river, where he followed 
farming for a time, later purchasing land in that vicinity. Six months later he sold his property but 
continued to make his home there until 1881, in which year he came to Fresno county. He bought 
railroad land at Lone Star, where he engaged in general agricultural pursuits for nine years, removing in 
1890 to Del Rey and in 1902 to his present property, which consists of twenty acres a mile and a half 
east of Fowler. Ten acres of this property is devoted to vines, six acres to trees and the balance is in 
pasture. In Bond county, Ill, in 1870, he was united in marriage with Marv Ann Levick, a native of 
Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of the following children : Francis Marion, of Lone Star. Cal. ; 
Woodson Alexander, a farmer of this vicinity ; Salina Letitia Ann. at home; Charles Henry, of Lone Star ; 
Lester Percy, at home. By a former marriage Mrs. Pool had one son, William Louis Levick, whose home 
is with his mother and Mr. Pool. They also have an adopted daughter, Lillie May, who is at home also. 
Fraternally Mr. Pool is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Fowler, in which 
lodge he has passed all the chairs. Politically he reserves the right to cast his ballot for the man whom 
he considers best qualified for public office.