Tulare County Biographies

RICHARD H. ARNETT

Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn

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     As a farmer, as a friend to education and as a genial companion, Richard H. 
Arnett was known to many people in the vicinity of Visalia, Tulare county, Cal. 
He was born in West Virginia in September, 1850, and died at his home near 
Visalia, October 27, 1902. He left West Virginia for Missouri when he was 
eighteen years old, and later came to California. 
 
     Arriving in Tulare county in 1875, Mr. Arnett began ranching north of 
Visalia before many months passed, and two years later he moved to the city. In 
1882 he became owner of a ranch on East Mineral King avenue which he began to 
improve in many ways and cultivated with success, though he had not been able 
down to the time of his death to clear it of all incumbrance. 
 
     In 1877 Mr. Arnett married Miss Mary E. Shippey, a native of Missouri, 
whose father was an early settler in this part of California, and they had ten 
children: Dora, May, Frank. Richard H., Thomas, Fred, Blanche, Earl, an infant 
not named, and Walter. Dora is the wife of Clarence Goble. May married Andrew 
Goble. Frank married Etta Beede. Richard H. married Stella Swanson. Fred has 
passed away. Blanche is Mrs. J. R. Thompson. After her husband�s death, the 
burden of managing the ranch fell on Mrs. Arnett�s shoulders. She never had much 
to do with the business, but had learned a good deal about it by observation. 
Rising to her responsibilities, she accepted the situation, and how well she has 
discharged all the obligations of her position is known to the community with 
which she and her husband cast their lot. Not only has she made a success of her 
farming and stock-raising, but she has cleared her property of all debt and now 
owns sixty acres of land in three sections of twenty acres each, all close to 
Visalia and valuable from every point of view. She raises cattle, hogs, chickens 
and turkeys which find a ready sale at good prices. All who know her rejoice in 
her prosperity, declaring that she is one of the best business women in Central 
California. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 513, 514