Imperial-Riverside-Orange County CA Archives Biographies.....Covington, Walter A. 1890 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

WALTER A. COVINGTON is one of the enterprising and enthusiastic real estate men
of Imperial County, and is a member of the firm of Best, DeBlois and Covington
of Brawley since its organization. Mr. Covington is a native son and his birth
occurred in Redlands, California, May 6, 1877. He is the son of Peter H. and
Martha Covington. His father died at the age of seventy-one and was buried in
Santa Ana, California. Walter A. acquired his education in the public and high
schools of Redlands. He left school at the age of twenty and took a business
course. He assisted his father for two years in the furniture business and then
engaged in the bicycle and sporting goods business, which he carried on for a
period of four years. For the next eight years he was identified with the Union
Electrical Company of Trenton, New Jersey, and traveled throughout the central
states. Returning to Santa Ana, he managed his father's ranch for about two
years. In Imperial Valley, Mr. Covington then entered into a partnership with
his brother-in-law, W. H. Best, and engaged in the real estate and loan
business, until the present firm was organized. Mr. Covington is interested with
his brothers in seven hundred acres of land in Imperial County, which is under
cultivation and managed by himself. Mr. Covington serves as police commissioner
and is a city trustee. His political allegiance is with the Democratic party. He
was united in marriage at Bakersfield, California, with Miss Clara Bell
Richardson, November 13, 1912, a daughter of George and Miley (Hunt) Richardson,
a prominent man and pioneer of Kern County. To Mr. and Mrs. Covington has been
born one son, Robert Wayne, born September 1, 1913. It was while tilling the
soil here that Mr. Covington became impressed with the land, and he at once
invested in agricultural land. From his long experience in agriculture in the
county, Mr. Covington is in a position to talk with authority on soil and crop
conditions and he is not the man to lead a stranger astray.



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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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