the Bay Area. Jack was an activist for labor rights and, during World War II, helped bring about the demise of "auxiliary" (segregated) unions in the Kaiser shipyards. His daughter, Jane Eshleman Conant, was a pioneering woman writer for San Francisco newspapers from 1941 to 1976. Eshleman also had two other children, Kathryn Eshleman Wahl, a women's editor at the Oakland Tribune, and Robert T. Eshleman, a prominent Bay Area attorney. His daughters were the first two women's editors at The Daily Californian, which was housed in the original building named for their father. References External links Join California John M. Eshleman 1876 births 1916 deaths Lieutenant Governors of California Republican Party members of the California State Assembly University of California, Berkeley alumni Politicians from Berkeley, California People from Pulaski County, Illinois 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in California California Progressives (1912) District attorneys in California Lawyers from Berkeley, California 19th-century American politicians