San Luis Obispo County Biographies

E. A. ATWOOD

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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E. A. ATWOOD, a horticulturist of San Luis Obispo County, was born in 
Androscoggin County, Maine, in 1828, of New England parents. After receiving a 
good common-school education at home he u mechanical pursuits; later he en- 
tered the grocery business; in 1862 he came to California. For a number of years he was 
engaged in the manufacture of pumping machinery at San Francisco, and had a profit- 
able trade. A serious catarrhal trouble compelled him to move from that city, and 
in 1876, after prospecting around for a year or so, he came to San Luis Obispo County, 
and settled on the property where he now resides, consisting of sixty-five acres, and lo- 
cated on the railroad between San Luis Obispo and Port Harford. He is eminently success- 
ful in fruit culture. At the county fairs he always captures some premiums. At one 
competition he took the first premium on several varieties of fruits. From a wild, un- 
settled country, when he first came to the ranch, the place has been changed to a finely 
developed piece of property. Mr. Atwood has a wife and one daughter, both natives of 
Maine. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.