History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, Volume II, Part 2

Author: Vandor, Paul E., 1858-
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company
Number of Pages: 1424

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Savage, H. A. 2421

Rehora, Frank

1551 IT Saxe, Christian. 746

Pugh. Iohu Sallee. 1633

Pugh, Sarah Frances, D.O.

1435

Qualls, Tohn M.

1372

Ouick, Herbert B.

2188

Rowell, Dr. Chester.

237

Price, Oscar E

1777

Puckhaber, Charles R.

2291

Pugh Brothers

1692

Pugh, John M.

630

Samelson, Samuel. 970

Randrup, James B.

Rathgeber, Philipp

2374

Pretzer, Henry, Jr.

2195

Sabroe, Carl O. 1987

INDEX

Page.

Vol.

Page.

Vol.

Say, Grant D. G.

993

Simerly, Clarence G. 2219 II

Say, James H ..

993

Simerly, John B ...

2215

Say, Mrs. Laura J.

1081

Simpson, Albert P ... 1456

Say, Lyle H.

1382

Simpson, James William. 1501

Say, William Henry

1079

Simpson, John Greenup, Sr.

2008

Scales, William L

1451

Simpson, Thomas Jackson. 1836

Scharer, Charles.

923

Sims, Benjamin L. 2425

Scheidt, Fred

2067

Sims, James William

1630

Scheidt, George

2576

Sinclair, John G. C ..

1283

Scheidt, Henry.

2563

Sininger, William H. 2057

Scheidt, J. Henry.

2157

Skoonburg, J. L. 1184

Schell, Mrs. Louisa Dumont 968

Slater, Edward Earl

1396

Schlotthauer, J. A. 2316

Smelley, Christopher

2070

II I

Schmall, John Peter. 2118

Smith, Chris H. 1240

Schmidt, John A.

2489

Smith, Edwin Herbert 1319

Schmitz, Ernest

2591

Smith, Flora W., M.D. 1213

Schneider, Conrad.

2575

Smith, George E 2017

Scheneider, Henry.

2548

Smith, George W. 747

Scholler, Louis.

2386

Smith, James W. 976

Scbuknecht, Theodore H. 2500

Smith, John E. 2429

Schultz, Barney 1919

Smith, John W. 1747

Schultz, Mrs. Mary

2012

Smith, Lewis Howell. 1549

Smith, Thomas D., M.D. 1717

Schwinn, George. 1534

Smith, Thomas P. 1207

Sciacqua, Leopoldo

2560

Smoot, Guy Thomas. 2392

852

Scott, David

1727

Snyder, C. Ross.

1650

Scott, Jay . 707

Snyder, George

2435

Scott, Hon. L. D.

2443

Snyder, George H.

2233

Scott, Phil.

898

Soderberg, Andrew

2566

Scott, Ralph H

2002

Soper, Mrs. Sadie Elizabeth

1829

Scott, Robert.

1555

Sorensen, Christian 2500

Seacord, David.

2367

Sorensen, Hans William, D.D.S. 1690

Selma Irrigator (The) 1783

South, N. Lindsay. 2016

Spear, E. R.

2275

Spence, David A.

1703

Sempe, Charles 2403

Spence, Harry Edward.

2024

Semper, Natalio 2337

Spence, John Young. 2070

Sequeira, Antone George.

2468

Spencer, Wright H. 1896

Serian, Harry S. 2498

Spomer, Rev. August.

2395

Serimian, A. S.

2598

Staley, William S ..

1365

Stammers, Clarence L., M.D. 2286

Serrano Matias 2505

Stange, Hugo S. 1528

Sessions, Capt. Herbert A

1529

Stange, Paul T 2391

II II

Setty, Rev. Sanford E.

1890

Statham, Bert A. 2285

II II II

Shafer, W. H .. 1574

Stay, Ole H ..

2375

Shannon, Albert Sidney Johnston 1336

Steitz, H. P., Jr ..

2270

Shannon, L. S .. 1347

Stepbens, Lewis O .. 846

Steward, George Wallace. 1664

Steward, Nehemiah W. 1564

Sharer, Marques Monroe

766

Stieglitz, Michael 2183

II I

Shaver, Charles B.

1305

Stockton, Guy

1339

Shaw, A. Clifford.

1592

Stone, Charles J .. 1903

Shell Company of California.

2283 =

Shimmins, Mrs. Myra.

845 1

Shipp, George R ..

1417

Strader, William Franklin. 1364

Shipp, John M.

2289

Shishmanian, G. N.

2538

Stratton, John J .. 2028

Short, Frank H.

615

Strid, Charles 1237

Shuey, John W. 780

Stump, Allen Everett. 1580

Sides, Major M .. 813

Sturtevant, Andrew Judson, Jr .. 1536

Siering, Herman F. 1029

Suglian, John 1465

Silva, Frank 922

Sulprizio, Deuta 2524

Silveira, Joseph J.

2585 TI

Sunderland, Al E. 1145

Sime, Alexander

2274

II Sutherland, William 708

Self, J. A. 1843

Souza, Ed. J. 1818

II II II

Selma National Bank

1558

Selma Savings Bank. 1775

Sequeira, Louis George. 1844

Spires, H. E .. 2412

II II II

Setchel, W. Flanders

2314

Stanton, M. E .. 1326

Seubert, Rev. George P. 1628

Shafer, John

1562

Stay, Andrew H. 1922

Shannon, Jefferson M. 1436

Steitz, John August. 2111

II II 1

Shannon, Scott A .. 2291

Sharer, John William

797

Sharp, Ivy Watson 1616

St. John, Enos Frost

652

Stone, W. T. 1690

Stowell, Henry Oakley.

2213

II Stranahan, John H. 2213

Short, John W.

686

Stricklin, James Henry. 2030

II II II

Schwabenland, Alexander P. 2601

Scoggins, John Lee.

1733

Snow, Alva E.

II I

II II

Serrano, Florencio 2429

Staub, Arnold Humboldt. 1897

INDEX

Page. Vol.

Swanson, John August 2598

Verble, H. E ...

2368 II

Swanson, Nels 2057

Verwoert, Mrs. Alfreda. 2082

Sward, Axel W.

1285

Vignola, Angelo 1668

Sweeney, Albert Hamlet, M.D. 1141

Vignola, Guy R 1668

Sweezey, E. B .. 1332

Villanueva, Miguel

2490

Swift, Harvey W. 659

Vincent, Manuel

1710

Swift, Lewis P .. 740

Voenes, George J.

2547

Swift, Reuben James

2156

Vogel, Frederick Karl.

2395

Vogel, Herbert E

778

Vogel, Jacob

778

Vogelsang, Edward D.

1099

Voice. Charles E 2409

Voorhees, Truman L 2315

Votaw, A. S.

2379

Vought, Lawrence

865

Tangney, P. D.

2195

Taylor, Alexander

754

Wagner, Fred 2593

Wahl, Mrs. Louis. 2379

Wahlberg, Arthur G ..

1691

Telin, C. 982

Walder, William U. 2319

Thiede, Rev. K. A. Herman 1219

Walker, James N. 40

Thome, Eugene P.

2508

Wallace, Duncan, A. B., B. D., A. M ..

866

Thompson, A. E.

1627

Wallace, Miles

975

Thompson, Georgia Emily, M.D.

2389

Wallers, John

2493

Thompson, James Wallace. 2358

Walley, Granville Hartman.

1442

Thompson, William P ..

658

Walsh, John J ..

1847

Thomsen, Jens Christian.

1160

Walter, Charles Lewis

2571

Thomsen, Mathias

1706

Walter, John W.

1926

Thornton, Philip Burt. 2570

Walton, John T.

1194

Thorwaldson, Horace

1514

Waltz, S. W.

1607

Thurman, William C.

1656

Ward, H. L.

1820

Tobiasen, Bendiks

1770

Ward, John Allison 2434

Toccalini, Jack

2517

Ward, W. W .. 2131

Todd, Clayton Wesley

2149

Warlow, George L. 844

Tomasetti, Eugene

2595

Warner, Anna S.

1074

Toreson, August

2490

Warner, Beldin

1074

Traber, Charles H., M.D.

1594

Warner, Percy N.

1847

Traber, Prof. John W.

739

Watkins, John W. 1551

Trabing, Charles Willard.

1239

Weaver, Willis D. 974

Tranberg, James J. 2132

Webb, Arthur E 1404

Traweek, Cecil Calvert 1661

Webb, Hon. James Ransom. 2445

Trout, William Arthur 1814

Weber, Henry, Jr. 2049

Trucchi, Annibale

2564

Webster, John 1698

Tuck Brothers

2148

Wehrmann, Fritz 1012

Tucker, F.

2321

Weitz, George H ..

1015

Tucker, Steve

2344

Welch, W. A. 1212

Tufenkjian, Sarkis, M.D. 1056

Weldon, Robert W 2073

Tupper, Henry Clay 626

Wells, Absalom 1141

Turner, George A. 2412

Wells, Charles

1369

Turner, William 2093

Wells, Charles Prather. 2296

Tuttle, George M.

2074

Wells, Earl J. 2413

Tuttle, John E. 2037

Wells, Francis Asbury 1220

Twining, Frederick E.

1449

Wells, Hon. F. E

962

Wertz, William 1326

White, T. C. 1430

Whiteside, Olney 1330

2370

Uhler, Russell

1470

Wickliffe, William P. 1772

Underwood, Olin C ..

1711

IT Wiesbrod, G.

2541

Urrutia, Juan Miguel.

Wiggenhauser, Joseph 2111

Wildermuth, H. 2506

Wilkins, James P. 2405

Wilkins, Reuben Franklin. 2416

Williams, Charles Elliott. 2023

Vandor, Paul E.

1311

Williams, D. A .. 1808

Van Meter, Edgar Snowden. 1112

Williams, Edward A .. 956

Van Ness, William H .. 1004

Williams, Harold Clyde 2150

Van Ronk, Lewis E. 2333

Williams, Henry H. 2314

Venard, William F. 1423

Williams, Jess L. 2095

Venter, Otto

2076

II Williams, Samuel B

2301

Taft, Mrs. Emma M.

618

Taylor, George H ..

1452

Taylor, Marion H

2156

Teague, Charles

828

Teilman, Ingvart

692

Thomas, Benjamin Cassius

1042

Wall, Elmer Thomas 1783

Swigart, Edward Cooper 1680

Swiss Supply Company

2597

Taft, George W.

618

Uhd, Hans A.

1142

Wickliffe, Alfred

2258 II

Vanderburgh, John Jay. 1172

INDEX

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Page. Vol.

Williamson, Charles

1763

Wormser, Sigmund

964 I

Williamson, David

1469

Wristen, William David.

999

Williamson, George F

838

Wulf, Andreas

1985

Williamson, Simeon Edgar

1811

Wulf, Peter

1988

Wilson, Aubrey

1904

Wilson, Ernest T.

1617

Wilson, Eugene

2219

Wilson, Henry Thomas.

1909

Wilson, J. D.

1196

Winblad, Sig

1964

Winchell, Anna Cora.

679

Yeretzian, Arsen

1651

Winchell, Hon. Elisha C.

127

635

Yerington, William

2397

Winchell, Laura C ..

638

Yoakem, James Marion. 1908

Winchell, Ledyard F.

678

Young, August J ...

2583

Winchell, Lilbourne A.

674

Young, John and Alice. 1511

Winter, Conrad

2585

Winter, Karl

2483

Winter, Peter

2087

Wisbon, A. G.

1306

Wistrom, Fred

2096

Witten, Kinza P.

2161

Wolf, Peter J.

2440

Wolfe, G. A. 2030

Zandueta, Jose 2542

Wolgamott, Zenas

1034

Zanolini, Silvio 2321

Zediker, David S ..

1889

Wood, Robert M.

1443

Zimmer, William T.

1200

Woodall, Eli

2112

Zinn, Thomas H

1429

Woodwortb, Joseph E

92I

Zwang, Jacob

2196

Yraceburu, Joe

2273

Yraceburu, Jose M. 2563

Yzurdiaga, Firmin

2588

Wolter, Rev. Carl W.

1117

Woy, Martin Luther. .

944

Wyllie, Bunnie Lawrence

1353

Yancey, America Frances. 1387

Youngquist, Mr. and Mrs. John A. 2297

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BIOGRAPHICAL

CHARLES B. SHAVER .- A very important factor in the promotion of the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company, was the late Charles B. Shaver, who located in Fresno in 1892. Being a man of extensive experience in the lumber business he foresaw the possibilities of the Fresno Flume and Irriga- tion Company, an enterprise which had just been organized, and immediately bought an interest in the company and at once assumed charge of the con- struction, completing the surveys and building the flumes from Stevenson Creek, where the company built a dam sixty feet high, to Clovis, Fresno County, the flume being forty and one quarter miles in length, and requiring 9,000,000 feet of lumber to construct and an expense of $200,000. At the same time the construction of mills in the mountains was begun and carried to completion, two years being occupied in preparation for this extensive work. The planing mills, box factory and dry kilns of the company are located in Clovis, to which place the lumber is brought down by the flume. The output of this great enterprise is shipped to all parts of the world. To the energy, enterprise and experience of Charles B. Shaver, is due the culmina- tion of this important undertaking, which has proved of such great impor- tance in the development of this section of Fresno County.

Charles B. Shaver was a native of Steuben County, N. Y. where he was born in 1855, a son of John L. Shaver who was a native of Delaware County, of the same state. John L. Shaver was a miller in New York state until 1864, when he removed to St. Louis, Gratiot County, Mich. where he engaged in farming and continued to make his home until his death, which occurred at the age of seventy-four years. His wife, who in maidenhood, was Mary Rose, has also passed away. Charles B. Shaver was next to the youngest child in a family of four and received his early education in the public schools of Michigan, to which state he moved with his parents when a lad of nine years. At the age of nineteen he engaged in lumbering and was employed by Whitney and Stinchfield of Detroit, Mich., later becoming a foreman in the woods and in which position he remained until 1882, when he resigned and accepted a position with A. B. Long and Son of Grand Rapids, Mich. While in their employ he assisted in the building of the logging railway and became interested in their mills and lumber plant until 1889, when he re- signed and became associated with the White Friant Lumber Company. with whom he continued two years and during which time he constructed fourteen miles of logging railway and put in over one hundred million feet of logs. In 1891 he went to Missouri where he built a mill for Boyden and Wyman Lumber Company, at Neelysville, Mo. In 1892, he migrated to California and located at Fresno, where he was instrumental in the building and the development of the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company, becom- ing the president of the organization in 1894. He was also a member of the Pine Box and Lumber Company, of San Francisco, and the California Sugar and White Pine Agency, in both of which companies he served as · a director.

In Grand Rapids, Mich. on. December 6, 1883, Charles B. Shaver was united in marriage with Lena A. Roberts, a native of Pennsylvania. This union was blessed with three children: Grace, who is the wife of Captain H. J. Craycroft, U. S. A. medical detachment; Mrs. Ethel Hoover; and Doris who is the wife of Harold McDonald, of Fresno.

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After a very active and successful career, Charles B. Shaver passed away on Christmas day, 1907. Fraternally, he was a Mason, having joined the organization in Edmore, Mich., later becoming a member of Fresno Lodge, No. 247, F. & A. M .; he also belonged to Trigo Chapter No. 69, Fresno Lodge No. 29, K. T., Lodge of Perfection at Fresno and Islam Temple A. A. O. N. M. S. of San Francisco. He was a member of Fresno Lodge No. 439 B. P. O. Elks, the Chamber of Commerce and the Sequoia Club.

A. G. WISHON .- Prominent among the citizens of widely-felt influence in both the commercial and financial circles of Fresno, and one whose contri- butions to the development of the resources of the San Joaquin Valley have proven of inestimable value and are generally recognized, is A. G. Wishon, the worthy representative of a family that traces its ancestry with justifiable pride through the history of the State of North Carolina, back to the ro- mantic days of la belle France. He was born in Phelps County, Mo., on No- vember 6, 1858, the son of Marion Wishon, a native of East St. Louis, Ill., who was a farmer and merchant at St. James, in. Phelps County, and a man of unusual ability. He interested himself for years in fostering the best move- ments for the community, and consented to serve as the first Sheriff-and an intrepid one, too-of that county. He married Miss Mary Coppedge of Missouri, a daughter of Lindsay L. Coppedge, a Virginian and an honored member of an old and distinguished family of that State. He came to be a pioneer settler of Pulaski County, Mo., and for sixty years resided at Cop- pedge Mills, a place named from the mill he established there. Seven chil- dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Wishon, among whom the subject of this review is the eldest; and five of whom, and also the mother, are now residing in California.

After completing his education at the Missouri School of Mines, at Rolla, Mo., a branch of the well-endowed University of Missouri, A. G. Wishon at the age of eighteen became dependent upon his own resources and was for a while employed in the office of the wholesale grocery firm of Moody, Michel and Company of St. Louis. Later, he traveled through the South for the Ad- ler Goldman Company, cotton brokers and commission merchants of the same city, and after that he engaged in mercantile business for himself and suc- cessfully conducted stores at Sullivan and Stanton, Franklin County, and at St. James, Mo. When he disposed of his stores, he became chief of office for Captain R. M. Peck, superintendent of bridges and buildings of the Missouri Pacific Railroad at Pacific, a town in Franklin County ; and on resigning from that trust in 1888, he migrated to California with so many thousands of others who were attracted here through the great land boom of the late eighties.

Arriving in the Golden State, he associated himself with the old San Joa- quin Lumber Company at Tulare, at that time under the general management of T. G. Yancey, and local management of E. Lathrop, and subsequently he filled the position of cashier and bookkeeper for the Tulare County Bank. Still later, he opened an office in Tulare for the promotion of various enter- prises and the disposition of lands, and he became a notable factor in the pro- motion of pump irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley, a scientific enterprise that soon rendered highly productive vast areas of land which hitherto could not be profitably cultivated.

Mr. Wishon's first extensive project was the building of the Exeter Ditch, for which the water was brought from the Kaweah River above Lemon Cove, and along the base of the hills almost to Lindsay, Tulare County, a distance of about twenty miles. At the time when this difficult and expensive task was undertaken, there was not an orange or lemon grove in the region de- signed to be supplied by the canal, but through his successful completion of the work he transformed the country into one of the best citrus-fruit pro- ducing sections of the State. He financed the enterprise and after its com-

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pletion sold his lands at a handsome, deserved profit; and some of the acreage then disposed of includes today some of the finest California groves.

Another important enterprise which was fostered and developed by A. G. Wishon, and which has brought to so many incalculable returns, was the organization of the Mt. Whitney Power Company, which was the pioneer in electrical pumping in California. Having secured the rights to the head- waters of the Kaweah, he then associated with him as partner William H. Hammond, brother of John Hays Hammond, the famous mining expert, and installed a power plant, and not only did he bring the project to a reality, but he himself managed the enterprise until its success was assured. This plant distributes power and light to Tulare, Visalia, Exeter, Porterville and Lind- say.

In May, 1903, Mr. Wishon became the General Manager of the San Joa- quin Power Company of Fresno, and soon after Vice-President, Director and Manager of the Fresno City Railroad, and Vice-President and Manager of the Fresno Water Company. In 1904, foreseeing the increasing appeal of Nature's wonderland and the rapid advances in population, he was active in the organization of the Fresno Traction Company, with a capitalization of $5,000,000, to absorb the Fresno City Railroad and to construct a line to the Yosemite Valley, a distance of eighty miles through a most picturesque sec- tion of the State, and he has gradually become associated with many other California enterprises, a number of which he helped to found.

On October 5, 1881, Mr. Wishon was united in marriage with Miss Hen- rietta Emory, a native of Steelville, Mo., and the daughter of Azro Emory of St. James, Mo., members of the Emory family that has already given to the advance intellectual guard of America a leading bishop, an educator, a sol- dier of prominence and a naval official who distinguished himself while com- manding the Bear of the Greely Relief Expedition. The ceremony was sol- emnized at St. James, Mo., and of that happy union two children were born, Emory and Jenny.

Fraternally, Mr. Wishon is a Mason and a charter member of Las Palmas Lodge, F. & A. M., at Fresno, and also of other branches of the order. He belongs as well to the Fresno Chamber of Commerce, where he is never found wanting when expected to put his shoulder to the wheel, and to the Sequoia, Commercial, University and Sunnyside clubs of Fresno, the Cali- fornia Club of Los Angeles, and various other representative organizations throughout the state.

JAMES C. PHELAN .- The automobile garage owned by James C. Phelan, and named after him, is cleverly planned, well built, and managed according to up-to-date methods. Mr. Phelan's father, who was an honored veteran of the Union Army in our Civil War, is D. F. Phelan, and he is still living at Los Angeles. Prior to casting his lot in the Golden State, he was a pioneer in Colorado. Mrs. Phelan, who was Annie Donahue before her marriage, is deceased.

Born in the Centennial State on October 25, 1867, James C. Phelan was educated at the public schools in Colorado and New Mexico, and also, as he likes to put it, in " the great school of experience." As a young man, he ventured in both the grocery and butcher business, having a store when only nineteen years of age, at Albuquerque, N. M. For fourteen years, too, his business at Williams, Arizona, was one of the most progressive and prof- itable establishments in that town.

On September 9, 1893, Mr. Phelan was married to Miss Myrtie Dickin- son, and this union was blessed with three boys and four girls, viz : Mary M., Chris E., Roy N., Jimmie J., Ruth E., Bernice L., and Leoma C., all of whom were educated in the public schools of Fresno, the two eldest studied at Heald's Business College, while Roy N., is a student at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Phelan has accepted the doctrines of the Chris-

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tian Scientists, socially he finds recreation in the circles of the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias, and the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation.

In May, 1916, he built the finest and most complete auto establishment in California, spending $90,000 upon the same. He then became agent, for the San Joaquin Valley, of the Maxwell, Mitchell and Marmon automobiles, and the Kleiber and Maxwell Trucks. He employs from forty to fifty men to man the several departments, each of which is complete in itself. When he first came to California, in 1905, he worked for three years on the Fresno ranch; and then, getting into the automobile business in a modest way, he has made success after success. Mr. Phelan sold out in August, 1919.

Mr. Phelan is a stanch Democrat, but always something more than a political partisan. In advocating and working for good roads, for example, his public-spiritedness has been particularly shown.

NELS HANSON .- Everybody in Kingsburg has a kind thought and a good word for Nels Hanson, who was born at Lund, Skaarn, Sweden, on December 8, 1858, and reared in the old university town, where he began his education at the public schools. His father was Hanson Hanson, a farmer in modest circumstances who lived to be only thirty-three years of age and died in Sweden. His mother, Elna Peterson before her marriage, also lived and died where she was married. As a lad of seven, Nels, while attend- ing the Lutheran Church, in which faith his parents brought him up, worked in a woolen mill at Lund, continuing there for five and a half hard years. After that he served a three years' apprenticeship to the tanners' trade, work- ing for the well-known tanner and capitalist, Thelander, and becoming a journeyman in 1879.

Having thus equipped himself for a definite line of labor in life, Nels, in the latter part of 1880 sailed from Copenhagen for New York, and once safely within the borders of the United States, he made his way to Chicago where, for three months, he worked at the tanner's trade. Then he joined a construction gang on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway in Iowa, but in a short time he came back to Chicago and in the fall of that year went with some companions to Ishpeming, Mich., and there undertook to work in the mines. In time he became foreman and inspector, and received the highest wages paid to anyone there. After several years he became an independent mine contractor; and while saving his money, he sent it to a partner, Charles Carlson, at Kingsburg, now deceased, with whom he had purchased some eighty choice acres, which Carlson was farming to grain.

As a result of this investment. Nels arrived in Kingsburg early in the spring of 1888. He liked the town from the very first, although he was fated to suffer heavily in the panics during the Cleveland administration. In May, 1888, Mr. Hanson, longing to see the scenes of his native land, made a trip back to his old home at Lund. He wished also to meet again his fiancee, Cecelia Hanson (of the same name, but of no kinship), to whom he had been engaged for ten years; and the result of this meeting was that Miss Hanson came out to America, and they were married at Kingsburg on September 25. 1888. Now they are the parents of four children: Frank, who was in Company B, Three Hundred Sixty-fourth Regiment, Infantry, Washington, and at Camp Lewis, later served with the Ninety-first Division in the Ar- gonne in France, became automatic gunner, was gassed, arrived home and was honorably discharged at Camp Kearney and reached home April 26, 1919; Alfred, who married Emma Peterson of Kingsburg, and is a rancher ; Victor, who lives at home; and Henry, a graduate of the Kingsburg High School, Class of 1916, and who was in the military police at Camp Fremont.

When Messrs. Hanson and Carlson sold the eighty acres referred to, they accepted, as part of the sale price, a note for $1,800, but the purchaser having defaulted in his payments, Mr. Hanson had to take back part of the · land-for him a disappointment through which, at the time, he saw only mis-

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fortune and the necessity of his remaining at Kingsburg. Instead of a loss, however, it has proven a most valuable holding; half of it lies within the incorporated limits of Kingsburg, and such is the location that it is con- stantly advancing in worth. For six months Mr. Hanson remained at Kings- burg making improvements, and then he went to Portland, Ore., and became a bridge carpenter.

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History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, Volume II, Part 2

Author: Vandor, Paul E., 1858- Publication date: 1919 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company Number of Pages: 1424

Author: Vandor, Paul E., 1858-
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company
Number of Pages: 1424