Fresno County Biographies

W. S. Badger

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

	W. S. Badger, Deputy County Clerk of Fresno County, is a 
native of Cold Springs, Mississippi, born in 1865. He came to California with 
his parents in 1871 and located at Cottonwood, Shasta County, where his father, 
Charles T. Badger, carried on a general merchandise store. In 1873 they moved to 
Madera, Fresno County, where he operated Captain Mace's hotel and remained until 
1885, then coming to Fresno. The subject of our sketch was educated in the 
public schools of Fresno County, combining work and study as opportunity 
offered. In the spring of 1881 he was employed in Fresno by A. M. Clark, County 
Clerk and Recorder, and did office work in summer and attended school in winter 
for a period of three years. He returned to Madera in 1885, started a notion 
store and conducted it successfully until he was burned out in 1887; came back 
to Fresno, was appointed Deputy Sheriff under O. J. Meade, and served in that 
capacity until the expiration of Mr. Meade's term of office in 1888. Mr. Badger 
made a visit to his brother in Washington Territory that year. Returning to 
Fresno in 1889, he was appointed Deputy County Clerk, under A. C. Williams, and 
is now occupying that position. Mr. Badger was married in Fresno, July 8, 1888, 
to Miss Mary E. Funderburk, and resides in a comfortable home on Abbey Street. 
He is a member of Company F, Sixth Infantry, National Guards of California, 
Captain C. Chisholm in command.
 
Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, 
Tulare, and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, p. 355.