Kings County CA Archives Biographies.....Howe, Edwin April 14, 1879 - 
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Author: History of Tulare and Kings Counties

One of the many native Californians who has made a success of stock-raising and 
farming in the country round about Hanford, Kings county, Cal., is the son of 
Tulare county mentioned above. Edwin H. Howe is the son of Frank E. Howe, and 
was born April 14, 1879. He was reared to manhood in the Lakeside district, now 
in Kings county, and educated in public schools near his home. Associated in a 
business way with his brother, Albert P. Howe, and their father, he farmed in 
the Lake bottoms from 1898 until 1906, when the filling up of the old lake bed 
brought an end to their enterprise. They had been successful there, however, 
and Mr. Howe and his brother bought from their father the one hundred and sixty-
acre ranch, nine miles southwest of Hanford, which is now the home of the 
former. In 1906 he bought his brother's interest in the place, and since then 
he has bought from the Walker estate one hundred and sixty acres adjoining the 
homestead ranch on the north, in the west one-half of section thirty-four, 
ranges nineteen and twenty-one. He devotes his energies and his capital to the 
raising of horses, mules and hogs; at least that is his principal business, 
though he does general farming and has seventy-five acres in alfalfa. Formerly 
he gave attention to dairying, but he is converting his land to an alfalfa 
ranch as rapidly as is expedient. All of the improvements on his homestead, 
including house, barns and fences, he has made since he bought the place. He 
obtains water for irrigation from the Last Chance ditch and the People's ditch 
and has on his place a well for his stock and domestic use. He is operating 
rented land also, notably one hundred and sixty acres west of him, which 
belongs to his father, and eighty acres still further west, growing grain and 
alfalfa on both tracts.

In February, 1905, Mr. Howe married Maud Burr, daughter of Walter Burr, and she 
has borne him three children: Edwin Orval, Lucile and Herbert L., who died in 
infancy. Mr. Howe's success in life has been won by his own effort and, as has 
been seen, not without his having to make the best of serious discouragements. 
The optimism which has borne him up in his business struggles thus far gives 
him hope for the future, not a little of which is based on his belief in the 
destiny of Hanford and its tributary territory, for the up-building of which he 
is ready at any time to give public-spirited aid.


Additional Comments:
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 532-533
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler


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