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San Mateo County Gazette
Redwood City, San Mateo County, California
Saturday Morning, August 11, 1860, Vol. 2 No. 19

DIED
At Woodside, San Mateo county, Thursday, August 2d, DANIEL JAGGER, aged 40 years.

OBITUARY
It this week becomes our painful duty to announce the death of another esteemed and useful citizen. DANIEL JAGGER departed this life at his residence at Woodside, in this county, on the 3d instant, in the fortieth year of his age.

Mr. Jagger was born in Washington, Berkshire county, Mass. In 1836 he emigrated to Ohio, where he was for several year engaged in the drug business, being a practical chemist of no ordinary ability. During his residence in Ohio he was much engaged in those official positions immediately connected with the public schools, in which he at all times and in all places took great interest, and which he always endeavored to elevate and encourage. He was one of the pioneers of California, having arrived here in the spring of 1849, across the plains. Since then he has resided most of all of the time in the valleys and agricultural districts, devoting himself to the various avocations peculiar to those localities. In this county he was engaged in sawing shingles - having a mill near Woodside - and the raising of stock. He was never an aspirant for public position, nor one calculated to push himself forward into public notice, but one who commanded the respect of all who knew him and who was beloved by all who became thoroughly acquainted with him. He possessed a thorough English education, and was also a Latin scholar. He was a man of much and varied reading, and used every effort to encourage a taste for reading and literature, among those with whom he was surrounded. He was the founder of the Woodside Library Association, and the well selected library at that place will remain a monument to his memory, and an evidence of his good taste and sound judgment.

Mr. Jagger has never held any public position here except that of Justice of the peace, but this was owing mostly to the fact that he did not seek, and would not accept - office. He was the choice of many, and have he lived, would probably have been nominated County Judge - a place which if elected to, no doubt he would have filled with honor to himself and to the county. But what he might have been, none can know - what he was all can testify, and in his death all feel that a good man has been taken away.
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SMALL POX. – No new cases have come to our knowledge, and nearly all the old ones are recovering. Mr. J.D. Rose, county assessor, we are please to see, is about again, and attending to the duties of his office. Mr. D. Jagger we are informed is quite ill.
San Mateo County Gazette
Redwood City, San Mateo County, California
Saturday Morning, August 4, 1860, Vol. 2 No. 18