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Of the Hanford Abstract Co., which was organized with a cash capital of $10,000, Mr. Bush has been superintendent and manager since November, 1901, owning a controlling interest in the stock. With for stockholders he organized the Hanford Gas & Power Co., of which he is secretary and general manager; their plant is one of the finest of its kind in the state, costing $60,000, and to date (1913) has more than doubled the investment price. In the fall of 1892 Mr. Bush was one of the most enthusiastic promoters of the creation of Kings county from Tulare, giving generously of his money and time to that end, and he was one of the commissioners on organization appointed by Governor Markham. He has been directly concerned with most of the improvements which have marked the growth of Hanford from a village to a thriving industrial community. He was interested in the sugar beet industry and the erection of the $1,000,- 000 factory at Corcoran, which means, when plans materialize for operation by proper financing, one of the greatest things for the
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udvancement and prosperity of the farmers in Kings county. He was one of the organizers of the Guarantee Land & Investment C'o .. which company purchased eight thousand acres of land between C'or- coran and Hanford, now being developed for colonization.
Politically Mr. Bush is a Democrat. Though never an office seeker, he has been secretary of the County Central Committee and a delegate to the conventions and was one of the presidential electors on the Democratic ticket in 1908. Fraternally he affiliates with the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Foresters. Mr. Bush mar- ried in Kings county December 21, 1884, Miss Emma L. Byrd, who was born in California, and they have four children: Ruby Pearl. wife of G. M. Wilson; Clarence E .; Moses Lyman; and Grover L.
DAVID F. CARTER
It was in Platte county, Iowa, that David F. Carter was born in May, 1852, a son of William F. and Frances M. ( Hill) Carter. His father, a farmer, was a native of Kentucky, and his mother was born in Tennessee. They had eleven children : Sarah A., Marion F., James 1 .. , Mary, Vicia J., William P., Joseph O., John P., David F .. Colum- bus G. and Amanda. Sarah became the wife of Joseph O. Lands- downe, has borne him eight children, and they live in Visalia. Marion F. married Elsie Kent, of Visalia, and their two children are attend- ing high school in that city. James L. married Elizabeth Strawn and their home is at Visalia. Mary married Joseph Ray and has borne him a son named Oliver. Vicia J. is also married. William P., of Lindsay, married Sallie Sherman. Joseph O. married Miss Vickery and lives at Three Rivers. Jobn P. married C'enio Johnson and lives in North Dakota, where he is principal of a school. Colum- bus G. is dead. Amanda married Newton Kent. David F. married Elizabeth Reaves, and she bore him seven children: Frank, Luhi, Albert, Joseph O., Ora and Della, and one that died in infancy. Frank married Elsie Smith, and they and their two children reside at Reed- ley, Fresno county. Albert has devoted himself to educational work and his wife, formerly Miss Grimsy, is teaching at Porterville. He has served as a member of the board of education and is now princi- pal of a night school and will graduate in law from the Hastings law school in 1913. He was for four years a student at the normal school at San Jose. Joseph O. is married. Ora married William Janes, a newspaper man at Taft, Cal., and has three children. Della married Byron Allen, a well-known stockman, and lives at Visalia.
In 1870 Mr. Carter came to California from Iowa, crossing the plains with an emigrant train. For a time he lived at Hill's Ferry
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on the San Joaquin river and was engaged in farming and in driving a ten-mule team in freighting. He has lived in Tulare county since 1872. After following stockraising for a time he went into the lime business, in which he was successful, furnishing this necessity for most of the public buildings in the county. He located in Lemon Cove in 1876 and in 1878 was instrumental in establishing a postoffice there, of which he was in charge as postmaster for fourteen years. He was for a time prominent in the sheep business, at one time own- ing twenty-one thousand head. One of his transactions in sheep, with which he made a large profit on thirty-seven hundred sheep which he bought at Tulare, brought him to the attention of sheep men throughout the country. Finally he sold his sheep for $10,000 and invested his money in cattle. He formerly ran his sheep in the mountains, but his cattle business centers at his ranch at Three Rivers. He was for a time the owner of a lemon orchard at Lemon C'ove. He has latterly given his attention to the laying of cement pipe and his operations in connection with Mountain View ranch are well known to all his fellow citizens. Politically he is a Demoerat. Ile is a member of the Masonie fraternity. His interest in education has impelled him to accept the offices of school trustee, director of schools and clerk of the board of education.
JOHN H. HINE
In the struggle for snecess in which John II. Hine was for many years putting forth his efforts no one was more helpful and proved a mightier force in assisting him to gain prosperity than his estimable wife and helpmeet, and they are now making their home in Rich- mond, enjoying the fruits of their hard labor. Mr. Hine was born in North Carolina, in 1866, the son of John H. Iline, Sr., the latter of whom was a progressive fruit grower in California and is now making his home in Tulare county. When John H., Jr., was very young he was taken by his parents to Missouri, where the family lived until 1885, and there the boy began his education in the public schools. His aetive career began as a helper on his father's ranch, and there he remained until he was twenty-two years of age, when he married and settled on land which is now included in his extensive farm of ninety acres. Aided by his wife, he embarked extensively in general farming, growing fruit in large quantities and raising con- siderable stoek for the market. As a citizen he has always been help- ful to all good interests of the community, and in his' polities he is inclined to be independent. Fraternally he affiliates with the Wood- men of the World and the Wooderaft Order.
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The marriage of Mr. Hine united him with Mrs. Mary E. Hill, a native of Nebraska, and together they have since faced many hard- ships and reverses which they have bravely overcome with united forces, and have seen much of the growth and development of the great agricultural interests of Tulare county, witnessing many of the changes which have marked its progress from a primitive condi- tion to its present excellent status. Before her marriage Mrs. Hine had conducted a small hotel in Dinuba, but she rented it for two years after marrying and then sold it at a good profit. She is an excellent example of the rare woman who unselfishly shares the bur- den of life's responsibilities with her husband, and they justly merit the well-earned rest they are now taking, for they are renting their ranch and making their home near Richmond, surrounded by many friends.
WILLIAM H. MILLER, M. D.
Dr. Miller was educated in the common schools near his birth- place in Illinois and at Auburn, Ind., and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Illinois with the M. D. de- gree in 1886. After a year's practice in Chicago he went to Dakota, where he remained two years, until he came to California. He opened an office in Hanford in 1889 and has since built up a very successful general practice. He served as health officer of the city, and was surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad until he resigned because of the demands of his private practice. As a member of the California State Medical Society and through other affiliations he keeps in touch with the profession.
Inclination has led Dr. Miller to take an interest in ranching and in dairying, and during the past seven years he has developed thirty-five acres, six miles south of Hanford, into one of the most attractive homesteads in this part of the county. lle has three hundred and twenty acres also on Mill creek, east and south of Ilan- ford, between that city and Tulare, which is devoted to dairy pur- poses. It is irrigated by means of a twenty horsepower electric motor and two ten-inch wells which produce fifteen hundred gallons of water per minute. One hundred and sixty acres of the property is under alfalfa, and the rest is given over to grain. He has a dairy of forty-five Holstein cows. All in all, this is one of the best properties of its kind in the vicinity. Too busy otherwise to give personal attention to its management, he leases it on shares. His house in Hanford, which he erected in 1901 with a view to making it a suitable residence for this climate, is one of the model homes of
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that city. It is of brick, with double walls, separated by open spaces, and is surrounded by beautiful park-like grounds in which he has planted many trees.
Fraternally Dr. Miller affiliates with the Woodmen of the World, being a member of the Hanford lodge of that order. In a public- spirited way he has been a factor in the building up of the town, whose citizens recognize in him one willing, so far as he is able, to con- tribute to the general good.
ASBURY C. RANEY
It was in Missouri that Asbury C. Raney was born January 12. 1860. Reared and educated there, he made his home in that state until 1884. In that year, when he was twenty-four years old, he came to California and during the ensuing three years lived in Lake county. In October, 1887, he drove down to Tulare county in a prairie schooner, stopping at Grangeville. He entered government land on the plains near Huron, Fresno county, and after perfecting his title to it eventually sold it. For some time he was in the en- ploy of others on farms, besides which he did considerable teaming, and for nine years he worked on harvesters. In November, 1890. he bought thirty acres of land five miles and a half northwest of Hanford, of which twenty-two acres are in vines and about six acres in orchard, the balance of the tract being his home site. Later he purchased forty acres near Orosi, in the orange belt in Tulare county, and this he devotes to general crops.
In 1885 Mr. Raney married Berintha Kern, a native of Missouri, and they have one son, Teddy Roosevelt Raney, born in April, 1903, now a student in the public school near his home. Socially Mr. Raney affiliates with the Woodmen of the World. Politically he entertains progressive ideas and is devoted to the development of his district and county and to the best interests of the people of the country at large.
WILLIAM RIVERS
One of the enterprising and successful dairymen of Visalia is William Rivers, whose establishment is on Goshen avenue. Bereft of a father's care at a very early age, he found it necessary to earn his own way when he was quite young, and it is largely to his credit
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that he has reached his present comfortable state, having acquired property and becoming the proprietor of a well-paying business.
Mr. Rivers was born in Joliet, Ill., Angust 7, 1872, son of William and Mary (Miller) Rivers, and was but fifteen years of age when brought to California by his mother. He remained with his family on the small farm near Goshen, where they had settled, for about nine years, coming to his present place in Visalia January 1. 1911. With a partner, James Butler, he farms three thousand acres of land, having three hundred and fifty acres planted to alfalfa, and they expect to have a thousand acres devoted to that crop in the course of three years or less. Seventy acres are in vineyard and three hundred in Egyptian corn. . The land prodnees half a ton of dried raisin grapes to the acre, or a ton and a half of wine grapes to the acre. They have been successful in the raising of beef cattle, hogs and mules, and their stock, being exceptionally fine, commands the highest market price.
Mr. Rivers was married May 12, 1903, to Daisy Williams, a native of Kansas, whose family came to California in 1887, and she has borne him the following children: Lois, Irene, William, Jr., Ralph, Edith and Ray. He is identified with the Woodmen of the World and with the Loyal Order of Moose. In his politics he is stanchly Republican, and the confidence which his townsmen repose in him is indicated by the fact that he has been a member of the County Central Committee for Tulare county and as such has ac- quitted himself with much ability.
The mother of William Rivers, who is still living at Goshen. aged about sixty-five years, is one of those strong, courageous women who have done so much in aiding in the development of this territory. Her family consisted of ten children, viz .: Mrs. Frank Halstead, of Fresno county; Mrs. Arthur Mitchell, of Visalia; Alice, wife of James Black, of Oakland; Mollie; David; William, Jr .; Roy; John; James, and Harry.
JOHN EARLY SCOGGINS
The Scoggins family of which John Early Scoggins is a member is of Scotch origin (the great-great-grandfather having been han- ished from Scotland on account of religious persecution, he being a Protestant in his faith), and many of its representatives in this conn- try inherit the sturdy traits of character of that excellent race. The father of John Early Scoggins was Dr. Franklin Scoggins and was a native of Tennessee, whence in 1854 he set out for California, eom- ing overland across the plains and enduring the untold hardships
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and vicissitudes of that tedious journey. He was the father of nine children, as follows: Noah H., David T., Vesta Tennessee, John Early, Alice May, Newton Jasper, Nettie, Lena and one child that died in infancy.
In Yolo county, C'al., shortly after his parents had arrived there, occurred the birth of John Early Scoggins, on June 25, 1854, and he there grew to a boy of twelve years, attending the schools of the vicinity and receiving careful and attentive training from his excel- lent parents. He then was taken by his parents to Vacaville, Solano county, and attended the Methodist Episcopal College, there taking a preparatory course, after which he entered the State University at Oakland. His desire to complete a course was frustrated by the sickness of his father, which compelled him, after a year at the uni- versity, to relinquish his studies and athletic activities and return home to take charge of his father's large fruit farm near Vacaville. With his acenstomed thoroughness in everything he undertook he learned the fruit business in its every phase, and in 1892 moved to Tulare county to take charge of the Grant Oak Fruit Ranch of four linndred and sixty acres near Farmersville. As manager of this fruit ranch he shipped ont the first carload of green fruit from that place, thus establishing himself as one of the pioneers in the fruit exporting business of the county. For thirteen years he continued as manager of this ranch and then became interested in fruit farming on a tract three miles southwest of Dinnha, where he still owns a well-improved forty-acre fruit and alfalfa ranch, five acres being planted to peaches, twenty acres to grapes and the balance to alfalfa.
Mr. Scoggins is a stanch Democrat in political belief. and, not- withstanding his large ranehing interests, has found time to fill the office of member of the Democratic County Central Committee, to which he has repeatedly been elected in Tulare county. In church associations he is a Seventh Day Adventist and has served on the association board for several years. On October 18. 1876, in Vaca valley, Mr. Seoggins was married to Miss Ida Orpa Decker, daughter of Mrs. I. L. Decker, who lives at Diamond. C'al., and to this union eight children were born, as follows: Ethel Ida, Mable Clair, Roy E .. Adelbert Ellis, Paul Elmon, Edith Lucile, Nellis Lonise and Helen Merle, all of whom are at present residing in Tulare county. Ethel Ida is the wife of Alva Leibsher ; Mable Clair is the wife of Charles R. Thompson, of Farmersville; Paul Elmon is a minister in the Seventh Day Adventist Church, stationed at Tulare; and Roy E. is mentioned fully in another part of this publication.
The Decker family, of which Mrs. Scoggins is a member, are of old Colonial history, members having been among those brave people who came in the Mayflower to Plymouth, Mass. Her father. I. L. Decker, came across the plains in 1850, and it is an interesting fact
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in the family memoirs to know that he was married on the way to California and took his bride to live in the Suisun valley. Ilis death occurred in 1873, his wife still surviving and making her home, as above mentioned, at Diamond, Cal.
In all of his interests, industrial, commercial, political or relig- ions, Mr. Scoggins has been ever an important factor for good and every emergency has found in him an active helper and a most gen- erons contributor. A kind and thoughtful father, domestic in his tastes and loyal in his duties of citizenship, he has been most worthy of the honor and esteem which is accorded him by all. It is inter- esting to add that Mr. Scoggins has always evinced a great interest in athletics, having played first base with the Lone Stars team, and in 1873 was a valued member of the team of the University of Cali- fornia.
ROY E. SCOGGINS
Inherent qualities of an unusual character have qualified Roy E. Scoggins to fill the prominent position in the business world he holds, he being a member of a very old and well-known Scotch family on the paternal side, while in the maternal line he is a descendant of Mayflower ancestors of the Decker family. Mr. Scoggins' ingennity has been evidenced by his invention of the llard Pan Renovator, a machine made for the drilling of holes in which dynamite is placed for the blasting of hard pan. The machine is mounted on four wheels and is driven by means of an eight horsepower gasoline engine; by means of this power the holes are driven into the hard pan mat- ter and into the holes thus made dynamite is placed and exploded. thus breaking the hard surface for several feet around and making the land, formerly so useless, very fertile and valuable for orange, peach or lemon trees, alfalfa or any deep-rooted plant. In partner- ship with his estimable father, John E. Scoggins (a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume), Mr. Scoggins is now operating three of these machines in the field, and they have built up a new and very profitable industry in the county. The machines are made at the Briscoe Manufacturing Co., at Lindsay and Hanford, and the invention bids fair to become one of the most useful of the times.
Mr. Scoggins was born in Colnsa county in 1882, son of Jomm Early and Ida O. (Decker) Scoggins. When he was fourteen years of age he came to Tulare and prepared for college at Healdsburg, where he entered and completed his course with a good record. For some time he was employed on his father's ranch, and he then turned his attention to the carpenter's trade, which has been for many years
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his chief work. In 1908 he married Miss Edith Jones, a native of Iowa, and they have a daughter, Oleta, who was two years old in 1912. They make their home in Lindsay, and it has become the cen- ter of many pleasant social gatherings, their host of friends always finding a most hospitable welcome there.
Mr. Scoggins has never been actively interested in political work, but he has well-defined ideas on all questions of domestic economy and his public spirit has prompted him to respond generously to all reasonable demands on behalf of the community. He is an enter- prising and successful citizen, numbered among those young men of the state who have contributed the vigorous interest, inflexible will and indomitable courage to further interests, make larger attempts and bring about the prosperous conditions that exist at the present time. His invention has proved not only a financial snecess to him and a source of gratification as well, but it has given to many the means of improving land which heretofore had been waste and unde- veloped.
J. NEWTON YOUNG
The Young family to which J. Newton Young belongs is one of the leading pioneer families of Visalia, having lived there since 1855, during which time many representatives of the family have become identified with its progress and development. Born at Visalia, Cal., at No. 600 Sonth East street, which has been the family homestead for many years, J, Newton Young is the son of Newton and Mary (Price) Young, the former a native of Indiana, while Mrs. Young was born in Wales. The parents were married in Visalia, whence Mr. Young had come as a soldier to quiet disturbance incident to the Civil war. He was a private in Company I, and it was while serving in that capacity that he married. He was killed in a sawmill in the Great Forests by a large log rolling on him on August 24, 1871.
J. Newton Young was a posthumous child, his birth occurring April 24. 1872, just eight months after his father's accidental death. lle had a sister, Ida, who became the wife of J. B. Agnew, a seed- grower with place of business at No. 110 Market street, San Fran- cisco. The maternal grandfather of J. Newton Young was an old settler at Visalia. Ile built the old Visalia home and was identified with much of the development of that place. He came with the Evans family from Wales, that party comprising Samuel Evans, Sr., and his wife, Ann Evans; John Price, Samuel Evans, Jr., and James
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Evans, and Mary Price. The last-named, who became the wife of Newton Young, passed away at Visalia in 1909.
J. Newton Young is now managing the Mary Young estate, which consisted of two hundred and forty acres and a dairy ranch, besides other property. Ile has farmed successfully, and during later years has invested in the oil industry at Lost Hills and Belle Ridge, in all of which interests he has met with signal success. He married Miss Mand Shuman of San Francisco, and they make their home in the vozy bungalow Mr. Young has built at No. 500 South Bridge street. Visalia.
JAMES M. WELLS
One who has achieved prominence as a contractor and builder throughout the West and Northwest is James M. Wells, who was born at Lansing, Mich., April 4, 1855. He was there reared and educated and was instructed in the essentials and the niceties of the carriagemaker's trade. Thus he laid the foundation of the splendid knowledge of mechanies which has enabled him to win success in an- other field of mechanical labor. He came to California in 1875. when he was in his twenty-first year, and worked at carriage-making, mill- wrighting and carpentering in San Francisco, and also in Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore., in Idaho and Montana, and in British Colum- bia. In his work in connection with the construction of fine build- ings he developed an exceptional ability for interior finishing in resi- dences and office structures of the first class, and eventually this note- worthy specialty brought him to the notice of a leading contractor in the neighborhood of Los Angeles, by whom he was employed. mostly at Long Beach, for three years. He gave attention solely to interiors, and he worked there eight years altogether, helping to erect and beautify many of the largest and finest buildings in that field of remarkable building operations. He came to Tulare county in 1907 and bought a forty-acre ranch just out of Tulare City, raw land which he improved with a residence, ontbuildings and a modern pumping plant, setting ont a family orchard and devoting himself principally to the growth of alfalfa. This property he sold advan- tageously in 1910.
For several years past Mr. Wells has given his attention mostly to contracting and building. Among the notable buildings he has erected in Tulare City are the residences of Mr. Feltnig, Mr. Johns and Frank Moody, and in the county outside of that town he has built the ranch houses of Messrs. Ottaman, Wattenberg, Fry, Wol- cott and Miller, besides the Dr. Seroggs home and a fine concrete
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block house for Frank M. Adams. One of Mr. Wells' earlier ventures was as a ranger in Washington, where for some time he ran a large band of cattle over an extensive range. He was married in. 1902 to Miss Strong, a native of Indiana.
ISAAC HENDERSON WARREN
In Coffee county, Tenn., Isaac Henderson Warren was born in October, 1866, a son of Thomas P. and Mary ( Harris) Warren. His father lived to be seventy-five years old, and his mother survives, in her seventy-first year. They were natives of Tennessee, and it was at Hillsboro in that state that the elder Warren passed away in 1906. Mr. Warren married in his native state Miss Bobbie Willis, who also was born there. Her mother lived to be seventy-five years old, and John Willis, her father, attained to the same age; one of her grand- mothers reached the advanced age of ninety-two years. After his marriage Mr. Warren removed from Tennessee to Brownwood, Brown county, Texas, where he farmed until he came to Tulare county. He bought fifteen acres of land near Tulare and has twelve acres in vines, Muscat grapes being his principal crop. The remain- der of his land is a hig chicken yard, he having about one hundred fine chickens. While he is interested in stock, he keeps only enough for his own use.
To Isaac Henderson and Bobbie (Willis) Warren have been born six children: Willis, Oscar, Leasel, David, and Ira and Ima, twins. Willis is a salesman in a store at Collis; Oscar is employed in a packing house; the others are attending school. Mr. Warren is a member of the Baptist church. Politically he is an independent Democrat, and fraternally he affiliates with the Woodmen of the World. He is in every sense of the word a good citizen, solicitous for the general welfare and helpful to all public interests.
JOSHUA E. WEST
Of the enterprising handlers of subdivisions at Visalia, Tulare county, none has been more successful in recent years than Joshna F. West. of the firm of West & Wing. A native of the Blue Grass State, Mr. West was born in Graves county, Ky., a son of Joseph West. The father came to California first in 1850, subsequently re- turning to Kentucky, and again came to the Pacific coast in 1874. Joshua E. West, who was then quite young, grew to manhood in
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Fresno county and was edneated in the public school near his home. From an early age he was a valuable assistant to his father in the latter's farming and stock-raising operations and in 1895 he engaged in business on his own account by leasing four hundred acres of land near Fresno and devoting it to the production of grapes and fruit. There he operated until 1903, when he came to Tulare county as man- ager for the Robla-Lomas Cattle Company, which had a range of ten thousand acres abont twenty-two miles north of Visalia. There he had in charge nearly two thousand cattle, the number having been kept up to eighteen hundred and fifty for quite a long time. Later he engaged in fattening cattle at the Visalia sugar factory, feeding them on the pulp of beets. It should be added that his business here comprised the buying, fattening and selling of cattle, and that he transacted it successfully wholly on his own account. . In May. 1911, he organized the real estate firm of West & Wing.
In this last-mentioned business Mr. West's partner is William A. Wing, and they make a specialty of handling large traets of land for subdivision. A plat of twelve hundred acres east of Orosi they bought at an average price of $41.50 an acre, and after subdividing it they sold it at $125 to $200 an acre. They also handled profitably a tract of eighteen hundred acres north of Orosi, nine hundred acres of which they platted in subdivision and planted to oranges. In the last ten years Mr. West has seen orange land in Tulare county ad- vance in market value from $10 to $200 an acre, and he has wit- nessed a similar advance in property of other classes.
Fraternally Mr. West affiliates with the Woodmen of the World. As a citizen he is very helpfully progressive and public spirited. In November, 1901, he married Miss Eliza Freeman, a native of Fresno. whose father came to California with the pioneers. Mr. and Mrs. West have a son and daughter. Herbert and Marcella."
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