Imperial County CA Archives Biographies.....Packard, Walter E. 1884 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

WALTER E. PACKARD.—A history of Imperial Valley would not be complete without a
mention of Walter E. Packard, who is one of the most highly esteemed and
deservedly respected citizens of the Valley. He has been closely associated with
the agricultural development since 1909 as the local representative of the
College of Agriculture of the University of California. His work at the Imperial
Valley Experiment Farm, of which he was superintendent, has had an important
influence in moulding the farming practice of the Valley. Mr. Packard has taken
an active interest in irrigation affairs, having represented Imperial Valley in
conferences in Washington on two different occasions. As president of the Farm
Bureau he took a leading part in promoting agricultural co-operation. Mr.
Packard was born in Oak Park, Illinois, February 22, 1884, a son of Samuel Ware
and Clara A. (Fish) Packard. His father was a native of Massachusetts and his
mother was a native of New York. In the parents' family there were five
children. Walter E., after attending the Oak Park Public and high school,
graduated from the Iowa State College and later took the degree of master of
science from the University of California. He spent some time in Idaho in
developing a claim and later took a position as special investigator for the
office of Irrigation Investigations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. In
1909 Mr. Packard took the position as special representative of the College of
Agriculture in Imperial Valley, and as a result of his work several bulletins
have been published by the University of California. In July, 1917, Mr. Packard
accepted the position as Assistant State Leader of Farm Advisers in California.
Mr. Packard was united in marriage December 20, 1909, to Miss Emma Leonard, of
Waukee, Iowa. Two children have been born, Clara Eleanor, born November 2, 1910,
and Emma Louise, born April 15, 1914. Mrs. Packard graduated from the Iowa State
College in 1907 as a classmate of Mr. Packard and, before her marriage, spent
some time in South Carolina in social work among the mill workers. While in the
Valley Mrs. Packard took an active interest in child study work as chairman of
the Home Economics section of the Woman's Ten Thousand Club.

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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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