Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Jackson, D. A. 1831 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

D. A. JACKSON, horticulturist near Woodland, is one of the most extensively
known citizens in Central California; is well-known even in the Eastern States
as a fruit raiser and packer. He was born February 14, 1831, in Knox County,
Ohio, a son of B. B. and Polly (Ruggles) Jackson, natives of Pennsylvania. The
father, a farmer by occupation, removed to Ohio at an early age, remained there
until 1860, and then came on to California in company with his sons, and here he
remained until his death, which occurred in 1868, in Yolo County, when he was
about sixty-eight years old. Mr. Jackson, our subject, was brought up on a large
farm in Ohio. In 1864 he came to California across the plains, the trip
occupying some ninety days. Going direct to Yolo County, he rented land in the
vicinity of Woodland and began farming, raising wheat. In a few years he found
himself able to purchase a home for himself, which he did by buying eighty acres
for $1,750. The farm is now valued at $400 per acre, and improvements $8,000.
For ten years he continued wheat-raising, hauling the same to Sacramento to
market. He began the fruit industry in 1883, and has sold his land in ten-acre
tracts until he now has only thirty acres left, which is in the city limits of
Woodland and devoted to choice fruit-trees and vines. He took the first premium
at the State Fair in 1889, receiving the gold medal for the best six varieties
of table, raisin and shipping grapes. In the season he employs from thirty to
forty hands, white labor, all from Woodland. He is also a large buyer and
packer. His goods are shipped and sold to all the Eastern States and Canada.
This year (1889) he shipped 100 tons.

  Mr. Jackson was married in 1850, to Miss Cynthia Cummings, a native of Ohio,
and their children are: Ella, wife of Henry Fisher, a resident of Hunford,
Tulare County; also one son, Ralph W., twenty-one years old.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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