Kings-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Smith, A Frank December 6, 1866 - 
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Author: History of Tulare and Kings Counties

An efficient member of the board of supervisors of Kings county, Cal., whose 
name heads this article, was born in San Jose, Cal., December 6, 1866, a son of 
Buck and Fannie (Heisley) Smith, natives respectively of Iowa and Pennsylvania. 
Buck Smith came to California in 1859 and engaged in stock-raising in Santa 
Clara county. Later he operated at the New Idra mines in San Benito county and 
in 1872 again went into stock-raising. In 1880 he transferred his farming and 
stock-raising business to a point near Hanford and in 1891 he bought land at 
Lindsay, Tulare county, known as Lindsay Heights, on which he has lived to the 
present time.

Wheat-raising at Hanford first engaged the attention of A. Frank Smith, though 
later he took up contracting and building and erected many cottages and 
residences in and around that city. In 1906 he engaged in the bee business and 
has become one of the extensive apiarists in his part of the state, selling 
about a carload of honey annually. He was elected supervisor in 1906 and re-
elected in 1910, elected a third time in 1912, and is now serving in that 
office. Since he entered upon his duties the following undertakings have been 
successfully carried out: Annexation of a part of Fresno county to Kings 
county; purchase of the southwest portion of the plat to enlarge the court 
house grounds; purchase of the fairground property of fifty-three acres half a 
mile west of Hanford, for the site of the new county hospital; building of the 
county hospital in 1910 at a cost of $30,000; and the selling of the old county 
hospital site and the purchase of an addition to the court house grounds in 
1911. Mr. Smith is secretary of Hanford Lodge No. 264, I. 0. 0. F., and one of 
the managers of Hanford Lodge No. 163, W. 0. W.

In 1886 Mr. Smith married Miss Cornelia Vermason, a native of California, and 
they have a daughter named Veda.


Additional Comments:
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 542-543
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler



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