Kings County
Biographies
C. C. CROW
In tracing the biography of the influential business man and representative citizen whose name introduces this sketch, it is clearly evident that the prosperity which he enjoys has been won by sheer ability and industry, and he is therefore eminently deserving of the high position he occupies in the esteem of the community. C. C. Crow was born January 7, 1878, in Stockton, California, and is the son of Walter and Pennsylvania (Haas) Crow. After completing his studies in the public schools he entered the University of California, form which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1903. He then went to Schenectady, New York, and spent a year and a half in the shops of the General Electric Company, where he gained much valuable experience. He had specialized as an electrical engineer, and going to New York city he entered the employ of the New York Telephone Company, with whom he remained two years. During this latter period he took postgraduate work under Steinmetz, who during his life was generally recognized as one of the world’s foremost electrical engineers, and also took postgraduate work in that science in Columbia University. Mr. Crow then returned to Kings county and during the following twelve years gave his attention to farming and fruit raising, in which he met with splendid success. In 1921 he became a partner in the firm of Crow & Railsback, at Hanford, and opened an automobile electric service station, obtaining the agency for Willard automobile batteries. The firm has been prosperous from the start and now gives employment to four men, whose full time is occupied in caring for the large and steadily increasing business. They specialize in electric equipment for Dodge, Chevrolet, Overland and Studebaker cars and have earned a high reputation because of the careful and painstaking manner in which they handle all jobs entrusted to them.
Fraternally Mr. Crow belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has attained the rank of a Knight Templar, and is a member of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and also of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is fond of outdoor sports, hunting and fishing being his favorite forms of recreation. Personally Mr. Crow possesses to a marked degree those qualities which attract men and he is deservedly popular in the circles in which he moves. He gives earnest support to every movement looking to the betterment of the community welfare and is numbered among the progressive and enterprising men of Hanford. Mr. Crow was married to Miss Katherine Murphy, who was born and reared in Stockton, California.
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California – Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 617
Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama
FREDERICK MARKHAM CUTLER
A man who has stamped the impress of his strong individuality upon the minds of the people of Kings county in a manner to render him one of the conspicuous characters of this locality, is Frederick Markham Cutler, the present county purchasing agent. Faithfulness to duty has been the dominating factor in his life and few men, in so comparatively brief a residence, have won as many warm and loyal friends here as he. A native of the old Empire state, he was born in Utica, on the 27th day of July, 1862. He is the scion of sterling old Revolutionary stock, and his antecedents are otherwise distinguished by the fact that his great-grandmother, Edna Perry, became the wife of Buckley Mather, of the famous Mather family of New England. Frederick Markham’s parents were George W. and Celista E. (Wood) Cutler, both of whom are deceased. George W. Cutler was a prominent and influential citizen of his community and served the unusual period of twenty-four years as postmaster of Ilion, New York. In 1897 the family came to California, locating in Napa county, where the father operated a ranch up to the time of his death.
Frederick Markham Cutler attended the public schools of his native city and then entered Ilion Academy, from which he was graduated. He then took a full commercial course in the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, graduating with the degree of Master of Accounts. After completing his studies he was for a short time employed in Illinois with an uncle who was in the lumber business. Then he entered the Second National Bank of Monmouth, Illinois, where he remained for a number of years. Going to New York city, Mr. Cutler entered the office of the Remington Typewriter Company as cashier, being later transferred to the auditing department. Coming to California in 1904, Mr. Cutler resided in Napa county until 1908, when he went to Richmond, Virginia, where he was employed by the Remington Typewriter Company until 1915, when he located in Hanford. During the World war Mr. Cutler was in the government service, being assigned to the housing department of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. When the close of the war terminated the work of his department, he returned to Hanford and accepted the position of county accountant and purchasing agent. This position entails large responsibilities, but Mr. Cutler’s discharge of his official duties has been of such a character as to win for him the approval of all who are familiar with the spending work he has done.
Politically Mr. Cutler is nominally a republican, but in the casting of his ballot he invariably is guided by the individual fitness of the candidate for the office sought. He is a member of the Masonic order and is the present recorder of Hanford Commandery, Knights Templar. Fond of outdoor life, his favorite recreation is hunting and fishing. His life has become closely interwoven with the recent history of Kings county and he has at all times given his support to every movement or enterprise looking to the betterment of the public welfare. He is genial and approachable and enjoys a well-earned popularity.
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California – Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 604
Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama