Walter Covington is one of the enterprising
and enthusiastic real estate men of Imperial County, and is a member of the
firm of Best, DeBlois and Covington of Brawley since its organization. Mr.
Covington is a native son and his birth occurred in Redlands, California,
May 6, 1877. He is the son of Peter H. and Martha Covington. His father died
at the age of seventy-one and was buried in Santa Ana, California. Walter A.
acquired his education in the public and high schools of Redlands. He left
school at the age of twenty and took a business course. He assisted his
father for two years in the furniture business and then engaged in the
bicycle and sporting goods business, which he carried on for a period of
four years. For the next eight years he was identified with the Union
Electrical Company of Trenton, New Jersey, and traveled throughout the
central states. Returning to Santa Ana, he managed his father's ranch for
about two years. In Imperial Valley, Mr. Covington then entered into a
partnership with his brother-in-law, W. H. Best, and engaged in the real
estate and loan business, until the present firm organized. Mr. Covington is
interested with his brothers in seven hundred acres of land in Imperial
County, which is under cultivation and managed by himself. Mr. Covington
serves as police commissioner and is a city trustee. His political
allegiance is with the Democratic party. He was united in marriage at
Bakersfield, California, with Miss Clara Bell Richardson, a prominent man
and pioneer of Kern County. To Mr. and Mrs. Covington has been born one son,
Robert Wayne, born September 1, 1913. It was while tilling the soil here
that Mr. Covington became impressed with the land, and he at once invested
in agricultural land. From his long experience in agriculture in the county,
Mr. Covington is in a position to talk with authority on soil and crop
conditions and he is not the man to lead a stranger astray.
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California,"
Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 1918, pp. 343-344.
Transcribed and submitted by Sally Kaleta, November, 2006.
Prominent among the business men of Calexico
is Andrew C. Baskin, who is an enterprising and representative citizen of
that locality. At present he is the manager of the Calexico store of the
Delta Implement Company, which was established in 1910. Mr. Baskin was born
in Highland County, Ohio, October 18, 1866. He acquired his education in the
public schools and attended college for two years. His parents removed to
Missouri and Andrew C. became identified with the McCormick Harvester
Company as traveling salesman throughout the western states. He later
purchased a ranch in eastern Kansas and operated it for four years.
Disposing of his ranch holdings, he became connected with Edgar Brothers for
one year. When the present store was started Mr. Baskin took charge, which
he has conducted to the satisfaction of his company. Four years ago he was
made a member of the city council. Fraternally he holds membership in the
Masonic Order of Eastern Star. Mr. Baskin was married in Ottawa, Kansas, to
Mary Ankenny, a native of that state, and to this union have been born:
Louise, attending school; Florence, a teacher in the Calexico Schools;
Eunice, a trained nurse, residing in Los Angeles. The Delta Implement
Company, also maintains a store in El Centro, and both stores carry a
complete stock of high-class farm machinery, wagons, and harness.
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California,"
Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 1918, p. 344.
Transcribed and submitted by Sally Kaleta, November, 2006.