Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 933.
 
CALVIN JACK

     another one of the prosperous farmers of Washington county, Oregon, is a
native of Highland county, Virginia, born September 13, 1849. In 1856 the Jack
family moved to Iowa, in 1860 to Nebraska, and in 1863 crossed the plains to
Oregon, the subject of this sketch being in his fourteenth year at the time they
came West.  He drove one of the ox teams, and a great deal of the journey he
made on foot. He was sent to the public schools in Iowa, Nebraska and in Oregon,
and spent his youthful days working as a farm hind for wages. When he was
twenty-one years of age he purchased his first land, 120 acres, at $3 per acre.
It was bought on time, and by hard work and economy he paid for it.  After his
marriage he purchased more land, and on the original place he has since lived
and prospered.
     Mr. Jack was married December 2, 1873, to Miss Elizabeth A. Masters, who
was born in Washington county, this State, December 18, 1857, daughter of A. J.
Masters, an Oregon pioneer of 1843. They have four children: Mettie May, Benton
A., James H., and Francis Albert.
     Both he and his wife are members of the Christian Church, and also of the
Grange. In the latter he has been Master and Secretary, and has held other
official positions. They now have their membership in the Hillsborough Grange.
He is a stockholder in the Grange store at that place, and takes an active
interest in all public measures which have for their object the good of the
county. He has most acceptably filled the offices of School Clerk and Director.
Politically he is a Republican. One
of the self-made men of the county, industrious, honorable and upright, he is
richly deserving of the prosperity he has attained.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.