San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 1/30/2010
JESSE HARDY
For the past twenty-eight years Jesse Hardy has been a resident of California and since March 1, 1902, has been identified with the Holt Manufacturing Company in Stockton, where, through the exercise of his native talents and acquired ability, he has risen to the head of the engineering record department of this well-known and prosperous concern. He was born in New York, July 11, 1875, and in his native state attended the grammar school; when his family removed to Rockeford, Ill., he entered high school, from which he was duly graduated. At nineteen years of age, 1894, he arrived in California, where he entered the California College at Oakland and in 1898 he was graduated with the degree of B.S. He then went to Calaveras County, where he taught school for three years, after which he settled in Stockton and entered the employ of the Holt Manufacturing Company. He started as a draftsman and was introduced to thirty employes, only four of whom now remain with the company, Mr. Hardy being one of the four, having spent twenty years of continuous services with this company. From draftsman, Mr. Hardy was promoted to chief of the plant, then to the head of the engineering record department. During the World War he was superintendent of production, having supervision of eighty-five clerks.
Mr. Hardy has the distinction of making the drawings for the first gasoline caterpillar built at the plant, a small affair named the Pullet. Mr. Hardy is an active member of Truth Lodge, I.O.O.F. and has passed through all the chairs of the order; also a member of the Parker Encampment and Canton Ridgley. His course has been characterized by firmness of purpose, by laudable ambition and unflagging enterprise, and the uniform esteem with which he is held is given in recognition of his personal worth and ability.
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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