San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/11/2009
WESLEY DANIELS
A building contractor who not only thoroughly understands his business but is especially well posted as to local conditions, is Wesley Daniels, the senior member of the firm of Messrs. Daniels & Green of Stockton. He was born near Hamilton, Ont., on January 23, 1860, and learning the trade of a carpenter and millwright, he followed millwrighting in Canada, and also at Davenport, Iowa, and Peoria, Ill. In 1889 he came out to the Pacific Coast, and at Los Angeles he worked for a couple of years as carpenter. In 1891, he reached Stockton, and he has been here ever since.
For five years, Mr. Daniels worked for Thomas D. Lewis, and in 1908 he formed a partnership with H.P. Green, as Daniels & Green, and commenced building by contract. From the beginning, the firm was very successful; and having once established their reputation for superior, dependable work, they have seldom or never been idle. They have erected many of the notable edifices in San Joaquin County, including the office building of the California Navigation and Improvement Company, and the remodeled Washington and Jackson schools. They built the North, Weber and Hazeltine schools, the Hotel Lincoln and the Taft Hotel, and a two-story brick block for the City Development Company at the corner of Main and American avenues. They remodeled the interior of the Commercial & Savings Bank, and also the City Bank, and built the annex to the Smith & Lang Block, as well as the Botto & Brassesco Block and the Marshall Building. They put up the Oneto and Campodonico Building, and the Flannigan Block, and are also to be credited with the fine St. Agnes Convent, the Stockton Dry Goods Company Block, the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Building, the Meyers Meat Market Block; a house for F.J. Viebrock.
While in Canada, Mr. Daniels was married to Miss Jessie Kern, a native of that great Northern country; and their particularly fortunate union has been greatly blessed with the birth of four children: Myrtle, Fred, Wesley J., and Margaret.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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