Tulare County
Biographies
WILLIAM BUDD
One of the most successful horticulturists and general ranchmen of Tipton, Tulare county, is William Budd, who was born June 29, 1842, in Camden county, N. J., over the river from Philadelphia. He grew up and was educated in his native county and at seventeen located in Philadelphia, whence after a few years he moved to Kansas City, Mo., where he was for ten years well known in the shoe trade. In 1890 he came to California and made his home at Tulare, Tulare county, and four years later he bought eighty acres about five miles north of that town which he converted into a fine vineyard and eventually sold in order to move to a point five miles southwest of Tipton. Here he bought four hundred and eighty acres, and he has since given his attention to stock-raising, growing cattle, horses and hogs of breeds and quality which have always made them in demand in the market. When he came on the place it included thirty-five acres of orchard, but that is now out of bearing; in 1910 he set out ten acres of new orchard. He also has twenty acres in vineyards, given over entirely to raisins, and is preparing one hundred and sixty acres for alfalfa. In every respect his homestead is first class of its kind, its buildings being modern and ample and its appliances up-to-date. On the place is an artesian well which flows two hundred and fifty gallons a minute and two pumping wells, one of them supplied with a ten horse-power electric motor, the other, which is exclusively for domestic use, having a two horse-power motor. Mr. Budd's residence is modern and substantial, one of its conveniences being an electric light plant. He gives considerable attention to dairying, at present milking fifty cows and planning to milk in the near future twice as many: He sells about twenty tons of raisins in a season from twenty acres of land. His live stock includes twelve horses, about one hundred and fifty head of cattle and many hogs, and he has also made quite an investment in poultry.
In 1890 Mr. Budd married Miss Katie Spankle, a native of Ohio. In comparatively recent years a member of their household has been William Blauw, their grandson and a son of Antonio Blauw, whom they have reared since he was eight months old. Mr. Budd is active, energetic and animated by public spirit. He has from time to time had to do with business interests not directly connected with his ranching. The dairy interest also has been fostered to an extent through his identification with it. He is at this time a stockholder in the Tipton Co-operative Creamery.
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 678-679
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
GEORGE BARTLETT
Two miles north of Orosi, Tulare county, Cal., lives George
Bartlett, son of Isaac Bartlett, grandson of Abraham Bartlett, great‑grandson of
Cornelius Bartlett, and great-great-grandson of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Bartlett's father married Hannah
Williams, who like himself was a native of Lebanon Springs, N. Y. She had five
brothers in the army of General Grant in the Civil war, not one of whom was
wounded, and they are all still surviving. She had five sisters, of whom one
survives. The grandmother on the maternal side reached the age of eighty-eight
and the grandfather passed his ninetieth year.
George Bartlett was born in Albany, N. Y., September 16, 1858. In his
youth he learned the millwright's trade and at different times has converted
many old-style grist mills to new-style roller process mills. For six years he
traveled in the interest of the E. P. Allis Company, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
visiting twenty-two states, and then settled at Hay Springs, Neb., for a time.
Later he spent one year in Salt Lake City and in November, 1890, settled in
California, mining for a year in Tuolumne county, where he now owns property. He
owned a half interest in the eighty acre Anthony prune orchard in Kings county,
where he was a resident of Grangeville and vicinity for sixteen years. In 1908
he bought thirty-eight acres, nineteen acres of which are in Muir and Lovell
peaches, paying $7,500 for the property, and has sold over $12,000 worth of
peaches since he bought the place. Without irrigation he is able to harvest five
crops of alfalfa each year. He keeps just stock enough to properly operate the
ranch and has made a specialty of chickens, having raised one thousand in 1911,
when he sold $180 worth of eggs from one hundred and eighty hens. His home is
one of the most comfortable in its vicinity. He bought property in Berkeley
which he traded for orange land near Bacon Buttes and owns an undeveloped mine
in Tuolumne county.
In Sheridan county, Neb., Mr. Bartlett married Miss Julia M. Knowlton, a native of Salem, Oregon, and they have two daughters, Gladys and Ethel. Gladys was graduated from the University of California in 1910 and is teaching school, and Ethel is a student at the University of Berkeley, Cal. Independent in thought and action, Mr. Bartlett affiliates with no political party. He was a member of the high school board for three years and in that capacity has had to do with the advancement of the school at Hanford. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith. Mrs. Bartlett is a Baptist.
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 679-680
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler