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Mr. Fugelsang belongs to Fresno Chapter No. 5 of the Dania, of which he is Past President, and he is also a member and Past President of the Danish Brotherhood, having also been a delegate to the national convention of the Brotherhood held at St. Paul in 1915. In addition, he belongs to the Woodmen
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of the World, while Mrs. Fugelsang is a member of Thora, Ladies' Auxiliary Lodge Dania, No. 11, of which she is Past President.
As a public-spirited citizen, Mr. Fugelsang has always taken an interest in politics, and he usually works under the banners of the Republican party, throwing aside party lines in local issues. For thirteen years he was a school trustee in the Madison district, and he has always been identified with the raisin and fruit association movements. He now belongs to the California Peach Growers, Inc., and to the California Associated Raisin Company, in which he is a stockholder. He is a director in the Scandinavian Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and is the company's appraiser, as well as vice-president of the local ditch company. One of the original stockholders of the Danish Creamery Association, he is now serving as president of its board of directors.
JOHN E. SMITH .- One of the oldest settlers of the West Side and the longest in years of service with Miller & Lux in Fresno County is John E. Smith one of the best posted men on early days and happenings in the part of the County where he resides. He was born in New York City, November 15, 1857, where he was reared, receiving a good education in the schools of that city. When eighteen years of age he came to the Pacific Coast, came to Fresno County in 1875 and immediately found employment with a sheep grower at the Sink of the Panoche on the West Side. Here he applied him- self and obtained the experience that has made him so valuable as superin- tendent of the sheep department for Miller & Lux. April 11, 1880, he entered their employ and has since been steadily with them except three years spent in San Francisco when he again returned to Miller & Lux in his old capacity, his territory extending over an area from Stockton to Tulare. During these years he has at times had as many as 150,000 head of sheep. The company, through his years of experience now raise their own pure-bred bucks, which takes in eleven different breeds of sheep. His headquarters are at the Dillon ranch near Firebaugh.
FLORENCIO SERRANO .- A very liberal and enterprising man is Florencio Serrano who was born in Aincioa, Navarra, Spain, September 22, 1877, a son of Miguel and Vicenta (Villanueva) Serrano, who reared their fam- ily on the farm where they made their residence until their death. Florencio is the eldest of their five children, three of whom are living. In 1898 he came to Fresno County, Cal., arriving February 9th. For two years he was in the em- ploy of a sheepgrower on the West Side and thien made his way to Elko, Nev., and a year later removed to Wellington, Nev., where two years more was spent working for a sheepman. Having accumulated some means he purchased a flock of sheep and ranged them in Nevada until 1907 when he sold his flock and re- turned to Fresno County, entering into partnership with his uncle, Miguel Vil- lanueva, since which time they have continued in the business. They own 160 acres in Cantua where Mr. Serrano resides and they also own a sixty-acre alfalfa ranch in Tranquillity where Mr. Villanueva makes his home with his family.
In Fresno, July 27, 1908, Mr. Serrano was married to Miss Braulia Yturri, a native of Mesqueriz, Navarra, Spain, a daughter of Francisco and Martina (Morillo) Yturri ; she came to Fresno in 1907.
Mr. Serrano is a stockholder in the Growers National Bank of Fresno.
CHAS. H. MORTON .- A man who has done his share to improve and build up Fresno County is Chas. H. Morton born near Quincy, Ill., August 23, 1859, the fourth oldest of nine children born to Benjamin and Nancy (Cole) Morton, natives of Ohio and New Hampshire, respectively, who were farmers in Adams County, Ill., where Chas. H. was reared and received a good education in the public schools. His health became somewhat impaired and he came to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1886 and a year later located in Fresno County. He liked the climate and his health improved. Purchasing twenty acres in the Wolters Colony he began improvements, later selling it at a profit ; then he bought five acres in the West Fresno tract which he after-
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wards sold and then purchased eighty acres on the corner of Belmont and Coalinga Avenues, where he built his home and made substantial improve- ments with a pumping plant adequate for raising alfalfa. Having leveled and improved the ranch and brought it to a high state of cultivation he sold it at a very satisfactory price in March, 1918, and again bought twenty acres in Wolters Colony which he also sold. He now owns a small pear orchard at Atascadero, San Luis Obispo County, which he has purchased for a home site. Mr. Morton is a member of the Seventh Day Adventists Church at Rolinda.
HENRY BRICKLEY .- Occupying a leading place among the prominent attorneys of Fresno, Henry Brickley, a native son, has won recognition at the bar by his close attention to cases that have been intrusted to him. Pleas- ant, liberal and progressive, he is an important member of the community in which he resides, and is contributing his full share of good order, high principles and all of those things that insure the welfare and prosperity of city and county. A son of the late John Brickley, he was born June 28, 1876, at Liberty, Fresno County, of Irish ancestry.
John Brickley was born and reared in the city of Cork, Ireland. When a young man he came to America and settled in Chicago, Ill., where he followed his trade of carpenter and builder. He enlisted in an Illinois regiment for service in the Civil War, and just before the surrender of General Lee, was wounded in the right leg. In 1866 he came across the plains to California and for two years he and his wife were residents of Truckee, Nevada County. Coming then to Fresno County, he was engaged in farming and sheep raising for a few years. He died in Madera County in 1879. His wife. before her marriage, was Miss Sarah McCormick, also a native of Ireland. She died in Fresno in 1908.
Henry Brickley was the third child in order of birth of four children born to his parents. He attended the public schools, graduating from the Fresno High School in 1897, after which he attended the University of California. taking a course in Social Science, during which time he majored in law. For two years he was a reporter on the staff of the Fresno Republican, during which time he studied law and on September 12, 1900, was admitted to the bar of California, since which time he has been actively engaged in the prac- tice of his profession and has been uniformly successful in building up a good practice and a large clientele. Always a Democrat, he has served on the Democratic County Central Committee and has been a delegate to county and state conventions. In 1904 he was a delegate and attended the National Democratic Convention in St. Louis at the time of the nomination of Alden B. Parker as candidate for president.
He is a charter member and past president of Fresno Parlor No. 25, N. S. G. W., and a member of the Fresno County Bar Association. Mr. Brick- ley gives his attention to both civil and criminal law and has met with well deserved success in his management of same. He holds an enviable position among the lawyers of the San Joaquin Valley. During the war, he tendered his services as an attorney to the local committee and did his duty in other ways, to help win the war.
HENRY ALBERT HECHTMAN. - As financial agent of Fresno County, Henry Albert Hechtman is prominent in business and social circles. His father is A. J. Hechtman, a native of Minneapolis, and his mother is Carrie C. (Van Matre) Hechtman, a native of Trinity County, Cal., and the daughter of Peter Van Matre, who crossed the plains with ox-teams in 1849, commencing his long journey in Wisconsin. A. J. Hechtman came to California when he was a young man, and both parents now reside at Willow.
Henry Albert was born in Los Angeles on March 2, 1882, and in that pro- gressive city he laid the foundation for his education at the public schools. Later he put in three years at Throop Polytechnic, and this was supplemented by
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studies for a year at Stanford University and then at the Van der Nailen School in San Francisco, where he made a specialty of electrical engineering and accounting.
Having thus equipped himself for professional work in one of the most important of modern fields, Mr. Hechtman followed electrical engineering in California, Nevada, Oregon and Mexico, for seven years after which he en- gaged in the real estate business in San Francisco. In April, 1906, attracted by the advantages of Fresno, he came to this city and for four years was em- ployed as track foreman of the Fresno Irrigated Farms Company, when he became manager and had his full share in the proper development of Fresno's valuable acreage.
In 1914 Mr. Hechtman resigned and soon afterwards was made deputy county auditor under Charles E. Barnum ; and in July, 1915, he was appointed to his present responsible position; later on the supervisors made him county statistician and both places he is filling with ability.
In Tonopah, Nev., on August 12, 1905, Mr. Hechtman was married to Miss Gertrude Ganser, by whom he has had two sons-Jack and Jim. He is a Democrat in national politics, and a leader in political councils ; first, last and all the time he is an enthusiastic endorser of every movement making for the development and uplift of the county in which he resides. He was made a Mason in Kerman Lodge No. 420, F. & A. M., and belongs to the Fresno Con- sistory, No. 8 Scottish Rite, and to Islam Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of San Francisco. He also belongs to Fresno Lodge No. 439, B. P. O. E., and Fresno Lodge No. 486 of the I. O. O. F.
Mr. Hechtman is interested in viticulture and has improved a twenty-acre ranch from raw land in the Dakota Colony, which he has set to Thompson seed- less grapes.
BURT B. LAMKIN, M. D .- Prominent among the eminent physicians of Fresno County to whose scientific training and special scholarship much of the fame of Central California is undoubtedly due, may be mentioned Dr. Burt B. Lamkin, a member of the city Board of Health of Fresno. He is an ex- member of the Board of Medical Examiners for the U. S. Army in District No. 2, on which committee he served ably during the recent war, and a mem- ber of the Fresno County Medical Society, to the presidency of which he was elected in 1919. Making his way since he was fourteen years of age, and rising by undeniable merit, Dr. Lamkin is today famous for his treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and as such a specialist enjoys prestige throughout the State.
He was born at Woodland, Cal., on July 21, 1876, the son of G. C. Lamkin, a native of Nebraska, who married Miss Sally B. Burks in Missouri, and came to California about 1874. About 1882 or 1883, the lad's mother moved to Fresno, and here Burt grew up. When fourteen, he was engaged by Postmaster N. W. Moodey as a clerk in the Fresno Postoffice, and when he was eighteen, he began an eight-year service in the railway mail department. Dur- ing this time, having graduated from the Fresno High School, he matriculated at the Cooper Medical College at San Francisco; and there, while running with the mail trains, he began the study of medicine and surgery. It is not surprising that such resolute persistence enabled him to graduate with honors in 1902.
Then he became an interne in a San Francisco hospital, where he served for a year. Returning to Fresno, where he had already had some experience as a member of the staff of the County Hospital, he opened offices in the Forsyth Building and began a general practice in medicine and surgery. At the end of six years, Dr. Lamkin went East and at the celebrated Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College, he took post-graduate work, and was house physician for six months. Coming back to Fresno again in 1910, to which city his fame as an aggressive young scientist had preceded him, he
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limited his practice to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in time moving into larger and better-appointed offices in the Rowell Building.
On April 26, 1908, Dr. Lamkin was married at Academy, Cal., to Mrs. Annie Sample Tipton, an accomplished daughter of D. C. Sample, the promi- nent cattleman and banker mentioned elsewhere in this historical work, and built a handsome residence at 975 Yale Avenue. He belongs to the Fresno Commercial and University Clubs, and is one of the most popular of Scottish Rite Masons.
Dr. Lamkin divides his time and energies between his patients and the work of the State and national medical associations, in whose programs he takes an active part. He takes a deep interest in both the civic and commer- cial progress of Fresno, and foresees great prosperity for Central California's metropolis.
WM. M. GOYETTE .- A successful rancher and stockman of Friant, Wm. M. Goyette was born near Sutton, Brome County, Province of Quebec, July 12, 1860. His father Amos Goyette was of French descent and his mother Margaret Gordon was of Irish descent. Wm. M. is the second oldest of the thirteen children born to his parents eight of whom are living. Our subject and his brother Arthur who resides in Pomona are the only ones of the family in California. He was reared on the down east farm on the Vermont state line, having good school advantages. Remaining home until twenty years of age, he then worked on a farm in Vermont afterwards in Massachusetts until 1883 when he came to Pomona, Cal., arriving on De- cember 28, of that year where for several years he was employed on a grain ranch. February 7, 1889, in Pomona he married Miss Elizabeth Maddock a native daughter of California born in Oakland. Her father, Morris Maddock, being a pioneer of California. After his marriage he engaged in farming and in time owned a ranch southeast of Pomona on which he obtained the first artesian well in the district and installed a pumping plant for an irrigation system, meeting with merited success. In 1910 he traded his property for his present ranch of 920 acres four miles east of Friant, locating on it in 1911, devoting it to raising hay, grain and cattle, in which he is very successful. Mr. and Mrs. Goyette have four children : Loretto and Linus, assisting on the ranch ; Amos was in the One Hundred Sixteenth United States Engineers, Ninety-first Division, serving overseas and Lorean, a graduate of the San Francisco State Normal now a teacher.in Fresno County. Mr. Goyette is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters and is clerk and trustee of the Millerton school district.
E. L. CHADDOCK .- Not every man associated with a well-established business can boast that his house is the only survivor of all who saw sturdy service in their field in early days, but this is the pride of E. L. Chaddock, the president of Chaddock & Company, the veteran fruit packer of Fresno. His father founded the trade here and was one of the first packers of dried fruits and raisins in the city of Fresno; and of all the competitors at one time engaged with them, Chaddock & Company is the only "old-timer" left. En- joying, in addition, a wide reputation for square dealing, it is no wonder that Messrs. Chaddock & Company are among the most flourishing concerns in Fresno County. Their offices are at 301-303 Rowell Building, but in addition to their packing house at Fresno, they have a fully-equipped seeding plant at Fowler.
Mr. Chaddock was born at Union City, Branch County, Mich., on January 16, 1873, the son of E. G. Chaddock who came to California in 1888-at the height of the "Boom"-and settled in Fresno. Two years later he embarked in the raisin-packing business, establishing an independent company never asso- ciated with any trust. In 1891 our subject became connected with the firm, and upon the death of his father, in 1915, he succeeded to the presidency. He had been graduated from the Fresno High School with the first class to leave that
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splendid institution, and he has been identified with the raisin and dry fruit packing ever since. E. G. Chaddock was a New Yorker, and he married Miss Matilda Le Valley, also a New Yorker.
At Oleander, Mr. Chaddock was married to Miss Rose M. Nicholson, of that city, a daughter of Dr. A. R. Nicholson, a pioneer physician of Oleander. Two children have blessed their union: Albert E. and Mary L. The Chaddocks reside at 625 Weldon Avenue.
Mr. Chaddock is a Mason and an Elk, but he is especially enthusiastic in his recreation about the Shaver Lake Fishing Club, its sport and its fun. Gen. M. W. Mueller is the president of the Club; Mr. Chaddock makes a live-wire vice- president ; and W. D. Noble is its secretary.
MAX KNITTEL .- A member of the Board of City Trustees of Fire- baugh as well as the agent for the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company is Max Knittel a very enterprising and public-spirited man. He was born at Malchin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, April 16, 1882, the second oldest of five children born to Wilhelm and Louise Maltzahn, farmer folk who are now retired and living comfortably in the vicinity of the scenes of their labors. Max Knittel was reared to habits of industry and thrift and from the time he was a boy made himself generally useful on the farm. His education was in the public school and the Gymnasium where he acquired a high standing as a student. In 1901 he entered the army serving in the Second Cavalry Regiment No. 18 and he was honorably discharged in Sep- tember, 1904. He had made up his mind to migrate to the United States so in March, 1905, he came to Firebaugh where a brother had preceded him in 1898. He entered the employ of Miller & Lux and was soon made foreman, a position he retained until 1910 when he resigned to engage in the hotel and restaurant business in Firebaugh, which he has continued successfully ever since. He is also agent for the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany, as well as a member of the City Board of Trustees of Firebaugh. Politically he is a stanch Republican.
A. J. QUIST .- A thoroughly progressive dairy farmer who has made his own way in the world since he was ten years old is A. J. Quist, who came here from Ferndale in Humboldt County, in the fall of 1917, having lived in the North for the ten years previous. Now he owns 100 acres two miles northwest of Caruthers.
He was born in Fredericia, Denmark, on October 16, 1886. His father, J. S. Quist, had a small farm of only six acres, and his mother, who was Mette C. Ostergaard before her marriage, had nine children. Both parents and all the children are still alive. Owing to their financial circumstances each child had to do something for a living, and A. J., who was the fifth in order of birth, began to work out away from home at farm labor when he was only ten years old. He was brought up in the Lutheran Church, and at twenty years of age entered the military service of his native country and was assigned to the heavy artillery.
In 1908 he left Denmark and came to Ferndale, landing first at Quebec and crossing Canada on the Canadian Pacific. From Victoria he sailed south to San Francisco on the steamship President. He worked on a ranch at Fern- dale for two years, and then bought out a dairy herd and for another two years sold and delivered milk there. He next bought a dairy farm of fifty- five cows, and helped to organize the Wild Flower Creamery, and for four years was on its auditing committee.
While at Ferndale Mr. Quist was married to Miss Annie Maria Lund, who was born at Bunker Hill in Humboldt County, and is a daughter of the late J. N. Lund, proprietor of the Citizens Furniture Company of that place. One child, Carlton Lund, was born of this union.
Having a chance to sell his lease of the dairy farm he operated near Ferndale, Mr. Quist did so; and because he had come to know of the ad-
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vantages offered by Fresno County through several visits here, the first being in 1915, the year of the World's Fair at San Francisco, he moved to Central California. In the fall of that year he bought forty acres known as the H. M. Bonickson Ranch, to which he has added sixty acres more. These 100 acres he is now checking and leveling, and will sow to alfalfa.
Owing to a vacancy caused by the resignation of K. Lauritzen, a director in the Caruthers Cooperative Cheese Association, Mr. Quist was appointed in his place; and upon the resignation of the president and manager, H. R. Kamm, who moved to Fresno, he was elected president and manager, and he is still filling those offices. He takes great interest in the association, which manufactures a fine quality of full cream cheese that commands the top-notch prices on the market.
While farming near Ferndale, Mr. Quist helped to organize the Hum- boldt County Cow Testing Association, of which he served as president from 1914 to 1918. This soon became the leading cow testing association in Cali- fornia, proving up the milk from four thousand milch cows by means of the Babcock test. He also took an active part in the work of the Humboldt County Farm Center.
Mr. Quist helped to organize the Caruthers Branch of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, of which he is now president. Dr. George A. Meracle is its secretary and there are fourteen farm centers in the county.
JOHN ALLISON WARD .- An honored pioneer of Perrin Colony No. 6, or Arizona Colony, John Allison Ward, now deceased, was one of the first settlers of this section of Fresno County. A native of the Buckeye State, John A. Ward was born in Xenia, Green County, Ohio, February 6, 1839, a son of Joseph Campbell Ward, a native of Ohio, whose ancestors were of an old Virginia family, members of which served in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His mother, in maidenhood, was Sarah Elizabeth Stevenson, born in Ohio, of Virginia ancestors. She was a granddaughter of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was killed during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Princeton. Her grandmother was a daughter of Mr. Kirkpatrick, who came to America with William Penn, and was one of the men who purchased the land which afterwards became the state of New Jersey. Father Joseph C. Ward was an Ohio farmer who removed to Illinois locating near Monmouth, later migrating to Iowa settling near Clarinda, where he spent his last days, his death occurring in 1875, his wife passed away about 1881 in Chicago.
John A. Ward was educated in the public schools of Illinois. On April 12, 1861, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Elizabeth Williams, born in Philadelphia, Pa., January 22, 1840, a daughter of Moses R. and Rachel Kinney (Black) Williams, natives respectively of Chester, Pa., and Milford, Del. The Williams family was of Welsh descent and pioneers of Pennsyl- vania ; the Black family was from Scotch ancestors, members of the family having served in the Revolutionary War. Moses R. Williams was a business- man of Philadelphia, where he was a manufacturing furrier and hatter. In 1857, Mr. Williams moved to Monmouth, Ill., where he established a harness and saddlery business and died there in 1875, his wife preceding him, having passed away in 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Moses R. Williams were the parents of six children, only two of whom are living: Mrs. John A. Ward, and Mrs. Rebecca Newman who resides with her sister.
Mrs. John A. Ward was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and after her marriage she and her husband operated a farm in Illinois, until 1870, when they removed to Cass County, Mo., and for four years there en- gaged in raising stock. Later they removed to Kansas City, Mo., where Mr. Ward became a stock-dealer. In 1893, Mr. Ward became greatly interested in California from reading the glowing accounts of the sunshine and flowers and salubrious atmosphere of the Golden State. His health becoming im-
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paired, he decided to take a trip to California and came to the Golden State in 1893. Upon his arrival he wrote to his family, saying: "I have struck Paradise and will never go back to Missouri." While in Los Angeles he became interested in Fresno County and determined to go there and investi- gate conditions for home-settlers. He was so pleased with the advantages of Fresno County that he purchased twenty acres of raw land in Perrin Colony No. 6. The next year, 1894, his family joined him and assisted in the improvement of the place, setting out a peach orchard, also planting some apricot and orange trees.
John A. Ward did not live long enough to enjoy the full fruition of his plans concerning his California home, for he passed to his eternal reward June 28, 1898. He was a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, fra- ternally he was a Mason and was Past Master of Temple Lodge, No. 370, F. & A. M., at Kansas City, Mo. After his death the widow and daughter continued to operate the ranch. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Ward were the parents of two children: Georgia May, now the wife of J. C. Nourse, and James Curtis Ward who assisted in the care of the home ranch until 1906 when he became superintendent of the Red Banks Orchard where he continued until he passed away, January 26, 1910. Mrs. Nourse, with her mother, owns and resides on the home place; she was educated in Kansas City and graduated from the Kansas City high school. Her first marriage occurred in Kansas City, when she was united with William Secker, a native of Canada. She made her first trip to California in 1894 and in 1897 moved here. In 1903 occurred Mrs. Secker's second marriage to J. C. Nourse, a native of Carson City, Nev., and son of Judge George A. Nourse, who was Attorney General of Nevada Territory, afterwards he moved to Oakland and then to Fresno where he became a prominent attorney.
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