Imperial County CA Archives Biographies.....Messinger, Hernando J. 1860 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

HERNANDO J. MESSINGER.—After a long and varied career, during which he has
traveled extensively and devoted his energies to numerous lines of endeavor,
Hernando J. Messinger is now one of the leading business men of Imperial County.
He is now vice-president of the Davenport-Messinger-Kavanaugh Company of
Holtville. The firm's progressive and enterprising methods have won for them
success. Mr. Messinger came to Imperial County in 1902. He was born at Easton,
Pennsylvania, May 3, 1860, a son of D. K. and Malinda M. Messinger. His father
is deceased and his mother resides in Philadelphia. Mr. Messinger acquired his
education in the public schools. At the age of sixteen he worked for A. R. Dunn,
a wholesale tobacco firm of Easton, Pennsylvania, and traveled on the road for a
period of nine years. At the age of twenty-six he entered the Government Indian
Service in New Mexico, remaining in this capacity for four years. He then
engaged in the mercantile line and traveled among the various Indian
reservations for six years, with headquarters at Navajo Springs. From that
period to 1902 Mr. Messinger went into the Apache country and was identified in
business. He had many horses and cattle and when the Phoenix and Eastern Railway
was put through he assisted in the construction work. December 20, 1902, he came
to Imperial Valley, which was just being started. Here he engaged in the
business of leveling land. He still carries on this business and is the only one
in the county who has been identified in this enterprise for so long a period.
Mr. Messinger started the first livery business and the first laundry in
Holtville. He also started the first store that Edgar and Varney Bros, occupied.
Mr. Messinger is one of those who have thoroughly demonstrated the possibilities
of successful ranching on two farms of 480 acres. Politically Mr. Messinger is a
Democrat and has served as city trustee as well as being councilman for four
years. He was married in Phoenix, Arizona, February 22, 1902, to Miss Ernestine
W. Warnake. To this union has been born one son, Marcus A., born September 19,
1905, and who has the distinction of being the first boy born in Holtville. Mr.
Messinger is a self-made man of whom the West is so proud. He started out in
life without friends, influence and capital, and through his own efforts he has
placed himself among the substantial men of Imperial County.

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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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