History of Fresno County, California; With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified with Its Growth a (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...Le-a ."6 hgoiiigy I-.l_l'cllCl Dr. Rowell as the candidates, the Good Government b g h vii_i, ., _ to 0 with the selection of candidates. Mr. Bush was a mem er 0 t e milling firm of Hollenbeck & Bush and was a relative bv marriage of Clarence I. Berry, the Klondiker. His administration was a negative one after the troublous one of Lyon and the policy constructive one of his suc Rev. VV. B. McElwee, who died at the age of eighty, had preached from valley pulpits for nearly thirty 'years coming from Missouri in 1886 to occupy the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church of Madera and remaining in charge for nineteen years. He became in 1906 pastor of the Belmont Presbyterian Church of Fresno which later merged with the Calvary and became the /Vestminster. He retired from the active ministry six years ago. His wife died two weeks before him. Rev. Benjamin A. Hawkins, who died at St. Helena Sanitarium. was county school superintendent of Fresno from 1883 to 1891 and after the division, superintendent of the Madera County schools. Death was from a cerebral trouble. of the guiding spirits of the kindergarten schools. active in club work and in the Baptist Church. She was a member of the City Beautiful Commission. Henry Markarian, president of the California Fig Growers' Association, was another victim of the Spanish influenza. A resident of the county for thirty-six years coming from Armenia at the age of ten years, he devoted a life to the study of the fig industry and Was a recognized authority on the subject. He owned the well known Markanan Fig Gardens, one and one-half miles north of the city where at the time of death he had completed a beautiful home., Bernard Faymonville, chairman of the board of directors of the...