History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . m Tacoma, where he spent about one yearon his uncles farm. Then he worked for a couple of years in the brickyards on Ander-son Island in Puget Sound, after which he came down to Southern California in 1892. Here he entered the employ of Charles C. Chapman and soon became the headorange-grader for the Chapman Packing House at Placentia. He gave such satisfac-tion, and was himself so wel
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . m Tacoma, where he spent about one yearon his uncles farm. Then he worked for a couple of years in the brickyards on Ander-son Island in Puget Sound, after which he came down to Southern California in 1892. Here he entered the employ of Charles C. Chapman and soon became the headorange-grader for the Chapman Packing House at Placentia. He gave such satisfac-tion, and was himself so well satisfied with the Chapman methods of industry andtrade that he remained with that famous establishment for twenty-one years, and leftthem only when he determined to found a home place for himself. In 1907 he had purchased two acres of land on East Orangethorpe Avenue forwhich he paid $150 an acre, and in 1919 he sold the same for $7,500. a price showing aphenomenal increase in value in a single decade. In 1917 he had bought five acreslying opposite to the two he had sold, and since then he has been developing this landin accordance with his careful methods and now has a splendid Valencia orange \k\K} \<^a^f^~ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1545 As a part of the improvement, he has erected there a modest, but comfortable home,adding decidedly to the attractiveness of the property. Besides caring for his ownfive acres, Mr. Jacobsen is also a grader of oranges for the Placentia Mutual OrangeGrowers Association. On December 2, 1903, Mr. Jacobsen was married in Santa .a to Miss MaryPetersen, who was born in Denmark in the vicinity of his own birthplace and attendedthere the same school to which he had gone. She was left an orphan when ten years ofage. In 1903 she came to Orange County, having met Mr. Jacobsen at the time of hisvisit to his home in 1899-1900. Two children were born of this union: Alfred J., whois with his father on the ranch and who also works in the packing
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