San Joaquin County Biographies
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TIMOTHY JOHN HARRISON
A well-known pioneer family of San Joaquin County is that of the Harrisons, now represented by Timothy John Harrison, who has been a resident here all his life. He was born on the Calaveras River in the Moore school district, San Joaquin County, November 12, 1862, and is the fourth in a family of ten children born to David and Mary E. (Winner) Harrison, natives of Virginia and Iowa, respectively. Two of the family were born in Iowa before they started across the plains to California and while enroute their third child was born, and was named Nevada. At that time the entire belongings of the Harrison family were carried in one covered wagon. The family arrived in California in the fall of 1860, after an eight month trip and settled on the Calaveras River. In 1863 the father bought 160 acres of land in the Waterloo district; later he acquired 280 acres, part of the old Sam Foreman ranch in the Linden district, on which he settled and farmed. He was a man of fine character and a friend of education, serving as school trustee in his district. Both parents lived to a good old age, the father passing away in 1908, his wife having preceded him three years. Five of their ten children now survive.
Timothy J. Harrison, the fourth oldest, obtained his education in the public schools of San Joaquin County and from the time he was old enough he helped his father with the ranch work until his nineteenth year, when he decided to learn a trade, that of miller. For the next ten years he was employed at Ione with the Bloomington Mills; then with the Farmers Union Milling Company in Stockton for eight years. Resigning, he went to Colfax, where he had charge of a great-uncle's estate of 100 acres and then came to Linden to make his home.
The marriage of Mr. Harrison, at Linden, united him with Miss Gipsy Cox, daughter of William H. Cox, a pioneer farmer at Linden. Mrs. Harrison passed away ten years after their marriage. In 1914, Mr. Harrison was married the second time to Mrs. Amber (Whitcomb) Sawyer, a native of Vermont, a daughter of the late Charles Whitcomb. Her mother is a resident of Linden and the owner of an orchard. Mr. Harrison owns forty acres of the old homestead near Linden, where he has made fine improvements and where he raises alfalfa and conducts a dairy; he also owns desirable real estate in Stockton. He is an active member of the local Farm Bureau and in politics is a Democrat.
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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