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 . tayed for two years, and then he removed to northern Minnesota and North Dakota,where he spent a few months. In 1885 he returned to Ohio; and when his father died,the following spring, he took charge of the home farm for a year, after which he wentto Garden City, Kans., and spent a year and a half. Then he went to Colorado andwas three months at Fort Florsend, a station on the early Co
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 . tayed for two years, and then he removed to northern Minnesota and North Dakota,where he spent a few months. In 1885 he returned to Ohio; and when his father died,the following spring, he took charge of the home farm for a year, after which he wentto Garden City, Kans., and spent a year and a half. Then he went to Colorado andwas three months at Fort Florsend, a station on the early Colorado and MidlandRailroad, now abandoned. In 1888, at the height of the famous realty boom. Mr. Jackson came to Californiaand settled in San Diego, where he accepted work in the large stone quarry betweenMurrietta and Fallbrook; but he was only three months there when he came on toWhittier. where he lived with his sister until he was married on May 26, 1898, to MissEmma L. Healton. who was born near Kokomo in the Hoosier State. Her father wasNathan Healton. and her mother, before her marriage. Miss Huldah J. McCoy and theyalso were early Californians, having settled near El Modena where they assisted in. HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 827 developing and building up the neighborhood. When she was twelve years of age, in1886, Mrs. Jackson came to California with her father and attended the El Modenaschool; and later she was a student at Whittier College. In 1903, Mr. Jackson pur-chased ten acres of the Beach subdivision of the Toler tract, and first set the land outto walnuts. Then he grubbed out the walnut trees and set out four acres of the landto Valencia oranges and six acres to lemons, and this has proven a more satisfactoryinvestment. The land is irrigated by the La Habra Water Company, and the LaHabra Citrus Association disposes of all of our subjects products. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson: Thomas died agedtwo years and seven months; then comes D. H
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