Kings County CA Archives Biographies.....Bezera, Joseph February 1866 - 
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Author: History of Tulare and Kings Counties

In the Azores, in February, 1866, was born Joseph Bezera, who is familiarly 
known to people around Hanford, Kings county, Cal., as Joe Bezera. He was 
brought up on a farm on his native island and remained there until he was 
sixteen years old, when he emigrated to the Sandwich islands, whence he came 
when he was eighteen years old to California, locating at Hanford before the 
end of 1884. Until 1893 he worked on farms and sheep ranches, and then he 
became a sheep raiser on his own account, and so successful was he in 
accumulating stock that he came in time to have a flock of seven thousand; he 
disposed of this interest in 1911. Meanwhile, in 1900, he had bought one 
hundred and fifty-eight acres of land, a mile northwest of the city limits of 
Hanford. It was unimproved and he built fences and barns and a fine residence 
and otherwise fitted it for profitable use. About one-half of the place is in 
alfalfa and he raises much stock. With others he is the owner of an extensive 
dairy busi¬ness which is conducted on a rented ranch of six hundred and forty 
acres, near Visalia, and there, too, stock is raised.

In 1911 Mr. Bezera revisited his native isle to renew acquaintance with scenes 
and friends of his earlier years, and after an absence from Hanford of one year 
and eight months, returned in 1912 and was gladly welcomed by the many friends 
he had made in his adopted country. He has become known as a man of progress 
and enterprise, who takes an interest deep and generous in the general 
prosperity of the community. Fraternally he affiliates with the I. D. E. S. and 
the U. P. E. C. He married, in 1902, Miss Mary Amelia Rogers, who has borne him 
three daughters and three sons: Lena, Mary, Manuel, James, Joseph, Jr., and 
Amelia.


Additional Comments:
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 597-598
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler











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