Tulare County Biographies

JESSE B. AGNEW

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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An identification with Tulare county's industrial affairs since 1883 has made 
Jesse B. Agnew well known throughout that vicinity, and although his present 
business takes him from the neighborhood on many occasions he holds his 
residence in Visalia at the old Young homestead, No. 600 South East street, 
where the family of his estimable wife had lived for many years. Mr. Agnew is a 
successful seed grower, with offices at No. 110 Market street, San Francisco, 
and he is also manager of the Pacific Seed Growers' Company. His father came to 
the west in 1846, locating in Oregon, and then returned east for a short time. 
He made in all seven trips to California before there was a railroad, and his 
experiences and knowledge on the traveling situation in those days is a most 
interesting narrative. A blacksmith by trade, he conducted a shop at the early 
mining camps and later removed to Santa Clara county, Cal., about 1873, and it 
was at this time that he purchased the old Agnew homestead.
Jesse B. Agnew was born at Eddyville, Iowa, September 15, 1863, and when nine 
years old was brought to Santa Clara county, where he was reared until 1883, at 
which time he moved to Tulare county. He was in the railroad land office of the 
Southern Pacific Railroad for a time. He married Miss Ida Young, daughter of 
Newton and Mary (Price) Young, who were among the earliest pioneers of Visalia. 
The Price family were natives of Wales, who came to America with the well-known 
Evans family.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 875