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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Can't address Vernon; but adding some even earlier history to
CBD's post (I thought the firm might have had an earlier presence in So Cal; but no): "Byron Jackson, the youngest of a family of eight, was born in Norwalk, OH in 1841. At the age of 19, Byron and his family emigrated to the Sacramento Valley portion of California [
maybe prompted by the onset of the Civil War?]. Byron opened a shop in the Woodland in 1872. The business was moved to San Francisco, CA in 1879 at 625 West Sixth Street. Shortly after, a sales office was opened on Market Street."
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