Kings County CA Archives Biographies.....Farmer, George T January 14, 1859 - 
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Author: History of Tulare and Kings Counties

Born at Hamburg, Fremont County, IA., January 14, 1859, George T. Farmer was a 
son of John M. and Martha J. (Utterback) Farmer. Attending school until he was 
sixteen he then came to California, arriving in what is now Kings county, on 
March 11, 1875. On April 17, following, he was employed in the construction of 
the Peo¬ple's ditch, but a little later he was heading grain on the present 
site of Lemoore, and in the fall of that year he was hauling lumber. Later, in 
association with his uncle, William T. Farmer, he was raising wheat and buying 
hogs, and their first harvest was the grain produced on one hundred and sixty 
acres of land, situated one and a half miles south of his present home. In the 
fall of 1879 he married and removed with his bride to Iowa, but came back to 
Kings county in 1880, and in the fall of 1881 moved to Yolo county, where he 
worked on road construction. He later came to Kings, then Tulare county, and in 
1888 went to Siskiyou, where he served as justice of the peace of Lake 
township. It was in 1891 that he moved to his present locality, and in 1896 
moved to his present ranch, which he bought January 19, 1903. He has been very 
suc¬cessful here and is now extensively engaged in stock-raising and dairying, 
giving attention to thoroughbred cattle, including Guernsey dairy cattle, and 
is considered one of the leading breeders of his class in the county.

Fraternally Mr. Farmer affiliates with the Sons of Veterans and the Woodmen of 
the World. Taking a public-spirited interest in affairs of the community, he 
has filled several local offices. For eight years he was deputy assessor of 
Kings county, and for seventeen years he has been a school trustee, including 
seven years as trustee of the Hanford high school, during two years of which he 
was president of the school board. He has served also as his party 
representative in the county central committee of Tulare and Kings counties.
On November 11, 1879, Mr. Farmer married Miss Gertrude Ruggles, a native of 
Woodland, Yolo county, born September 13, 1858, one of the first white girls 
born in that county, and a daughter of Lyman B. and Martha Ann (Dexter) 
Ruggles. They have eight children: Leta, who married Dr. Cothran, of San Jose; 
Milton T., who is at Berkeley; Lyman D., who is now filling the office of 
sheriff of Kings county; Ethel, a teacher in the Hanford grammar school; 
Theodore, who is on the home farm, and Clarence and Paul, who are in the high 
school, and Lucile, in the grammar school.


Additional Comments:
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 586-587
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler






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