Tulare County Biographies

L. W. BARDSLEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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This native of Missouri was brought to California by his parents when he was 
seven years old, when the family of Lafayette and Mary Bardsley, after a short 
stop in Sonoma county and another in San Diego, located in Poway valley. There 
young Bardsley grew to manhood and obtained an education in the public schools. 
He labored there principally at farming until he was twenty-five years old, when 
he rented a ranch near Santa Ana, Orange county, which he developed and operated 
with profit in connection with several pieces of land which he had rented, 
raising alfalfa and conducting a dairy until December, 1904, when he came to the 
neighborhood of Tulare. He bought eighty acres of the E. DeWitt ranch, on which 
he put all improvements including a residence, farm buildings and fences and 
made of it a fine dairy on which he keeps about twenty-five cows and raises and 
handles calves and horses for the market, incidentally keeping about twenty 
hogs; he is well known for his fine Holstein cattle. Sixty acres of his land is 
in alfalfa and he has a two-acre peach orchard, and the remainder is devoted to 
his stock. He was one of the organizers and is now one of the directors of the 
Dairymen's Co�operative Creamery company of Tulare and is a stockholder in the 
Tulare Rochdale association. Besides having achieved success as farmer and 
dairyman, considerable notice is given to his fine Percheron horses, which he is 
breeding more and more extensively each year.
In 1895 Mr. Bardsley married Miss Maude E. Hartzell, a native of Iowa, daughter 
of the late Capt. T. B. Hartzell of San Diego, and who had become a resident in 
the Poway valley. They have a daughter, Zoe L. Bardsley. Fraternally Mr. 
Bardsley associates with the Red Men, the Woodmen of the World, the Eagles, and 
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which last order he holds 
membership in lodge and encampment and with the Rebekahs. As a citizen he is 
helpfully public-spirited.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 662