Merced County CA Archives Biographies.....Fancher, Clarence L. 1875 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

CLARENCE L. FANCHER

   An extensive grain rancher of Merced County, Clarence L. Fancher is a member
of a family well known in the county since the early days of 1850. He was born
on a farm, five miles west of Niles, Mich., on February 11, 1875, the fifth of
seven children born to Jonathan W. and Margaret C. (Roe) Fancher, the father a
native of Syracuse, N. Y., born in 1835, and the mother of Indiana, her death
occurring in Michigan, in 1905. Jonathan W. Fancher was a cooper by trade, who
settled in Michigan in 1853. Moving to Indiana in 1885, he became an extensive
owner of land and stock there; and Clarence L., from the early age of ten, took
up duties on the home ranch as chore boy, and remained there until 1899, when he
came as far west as Butte, Mont., and later went into the Big Horn Basin, Wyo.,
where he entered on land under the Carey Act and homestead law, forty miles from
the railway, and for twelve years developed the land, devoting it to grain,
sheep and hogs, with marked success. In the meantime, his father had come west
to Merced, Cal., in 1900, where he had been preceded by his brothers, the late
George H., and Lee R. Fancher, settlers there in 1850 and prominent figures in
Merced banking and farming circles. Jonathan W. had acquired land near Merced,
and came out to look after his interests, and in 1912, Clarence L. brought out a
carload of stock, and has since handled the ranch work and managed the property.

   C. L. Fancher's marriage, on March 27, 1903, in Wyoming, united him with Miss
Lydia A. Lindsay, a native of Utah, and the fifth of ten children born to her
parents, the late Edwin R., and Mrs. Emma Bowden Lindsay of Big Horn Basin. Six
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Fancher: Lila, Iras, Arlene, Virginia,
Lindsay, and Llewellyn.

   In 1921, Mr. Fancher entered the Poultry Producers Association, and he is
building up his pens to full capacity, with 1600 hens, engaging in egg
production on a large scale. He is a member of the Planada-Tuttle Farm Bureau,
and has always championed modern methods, both in theory and practice, for he
sees in intensive cultivation the real growth of California, and especially her
valley lands. He is likewise interested in educational advancement, and is a
member of the board of school trustees for the Tuttle district. A Republican in
political adherence, he sponsors all movements which have for their purpose the
ultimate development of the district's resources, realizing that in that way is
the prosperity of the individual enhanced, in proportion as the country develops.


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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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