Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Earl T. 1888 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

EARL T. ANDERSON

    One mile south of Woodland, on the Davis road, lies Victoria orchard, a
beautiful fruit farm which throughout the county is renowned for its high state
of cultivation and the excellent quality of its products. The owner of this
property, (which was known as the old Briggs ranch at the time he acquired it)
is Earl T. Anderson, one of Yolo county's youngest horticulturists. He was born
November 10, 1888, in Lewis county, Mo. His father, William T. Anderson, is
engaged in breeding thoroughbred horses on his stock farm near Lexington, Ky.
Earl T. Anderson was educated at LaGrange, Mo., and also attended the Gem City
Business College at Quincy, Ill. In Lewis county he assisted his uncle in the
management of his stock farm, consisting of three hundred and sixty acres, upon
which fine horses and mules were raised, the herd numbering at one time one
hundred head. Mr. Anderson had long felt a desire to locate in the golden west,
concerning, the beauty and prosperity of which he had heard so many glowing
tales; therefore, in 1909, he came to California and after carefully surveying
the various opportunities presented to him chose his present ranch in Yolo
county, which had the advantages of being in a greatly improved condition and of
being in close proximity to the rapidly growing town of Woodland, thus easily
answering the question of shipping. The high standard of excellence enjoyed by
this property at the time of Mr. Anderson's purchase has not only been
maintained, but in the short period it has been in the hands of its new owner
has shown various phases of improvement which are the result only of his
thoroughly modern and progressive methods. Victoria orchard, located at Mullen
station on the Southern Pacific, comprises eighty acres, divided as follows:
Apricots, twenty acres; grapes (Muscat and Thompson seedless raisin varieties),
sixty acres; fifty fig trees (the drying species); thirty-five fine English
walnut trees; one hundred and fifty almond trees; five hundred olive trees
(Mission and Navodella, pickle and oil varieties); seventy-five silver prune
trees; seventy-five peach trees; also a number of orange, lemon, nectarine,
chestnut, persimmon, quince and cherry trees. Besides his fruit, Mr. Anderson
raises a fine quality of alfalfa on a small portion of his land.

    Mr. Anderson has for some time been keenly interested in thoroughbred
horses, and with his father is interested in breeding them in Kentucky, where
have been raised many of the notably swift runners which have taken part in
California meets. Though not a native of this state, Mr. Anderson is intensely
interested in everything pertaining to the welfare of Yolo county, and his
friends are aware that he may be counted upon to respond to the best of his
ability to the various calls for the betterment of the community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
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
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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