Merced County CA Archives Biographies.....Barnell, Dwight K. 1877 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

DWIGHT K. BARNELL

   An experienced rancher, who has met with success in his own enterprises, and
who also successfully served his community as president of the Farm Bureau for
Merced County, Dwight K. Barnell is well known in the San Joaquin Valley. Born
in Benton County, Iowa, on March 15, 1877, he is the fifth of six children born
to his parents, Aaron J. and Elizabeth (Youel) Barnell, both natives of Indiana.
Aaron J. Barnell settled in Iowa in the early fifties, and served as justice of
the peace for his township in that State. During the Civil War he had served
three years with the 20th Iowa Volunteers, receiving his honorable discharge as
a sergeant, and after many years spent in Iowa, he settled in Los Angeles, in
1906, and there his death occurred.

   Dwight K. Barnell and his brothers were reared and educated in Iowa and
farmed the home place. He received a good education, graduating from the Benton
High School, and then taking a course at the Cedar Rapids Business College. In
1914 he went to Barnes County, N. D., and there was superintendent of the farm
lands of the Dennstedt Land Company. Preceded by his father and brothers, he
came to California in 1917, and joined with his brother in operating the land
left by their father, the Barnell-Merced Tract, which that farseeing rancher had
purchased in 1912.

   The marriage of Mr. Barnell, on June 14, 1905, united him with Miss Estella
McGranahan, a native of Newhall, Iowa. She is a graduate of the Academy of Music
in Cedar Rapids and was well known in musical circles in that city. Four
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Barnell: Charles G., in the class of
1925, Merced High School; Helen, also in that class; Robert and Elizabeth, both
in the Tuttle Grammar School.

   A man of strong public spirit, Mr. Barnell was elected a director in the
Merced Irrigation District, from District No. 5. And as president of the Merced
Farm Bureau, elected for 1923-1924, he efficiently carried on the work and
directed this fast-growing organization in sixteen local centers.



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From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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