Kings County Biographies

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler


This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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Z. D. BEALL
 
a vineyardist and rancher east of Lemoore, was born in Ripley County, Indiana, 
in 1852.  His grandfather, Z. Beall, was a native of Pennsylvania, but settled 
in Ripley County in 1818, where the father of our subject was born in 1822.  Z. 
D. Beall lived at home until twenty-three years of age, securing a common-school 
education and assisting his father upon the farm.  In 1875 he came to California 
with four companions from his native town, and after landing at Visalia they 
found occupation upon Bacon�s ranches as farm hands.  In 1877 Mr. Beall went to 
Lemoore, and after four years passed in farm work he entered into partnership 
with Joel W. Williams, in working 240 acres of land.  After securing one crop 
they dissolved partnership, and in the fall of 1882 Mr. Beall purchased his 
present ranch of eighty acres, two miles east of Lemoore.  He also rented land 
and farmed annually about 200 acres until the spring of 1889, when he set out 
ten acres in vines and devoted his time to the improvement of his own ranch.  He 
now has twenty-four acres in vines, ten acres in peaches and prunes, sixteen 
acres in alfalfa, and the remainder in farm land.  He raises a few horses, and 
his fine piece of alfalfa and well-kept vineyard indicate watchful management in 
the line of agriculture which he is pursuing.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, 
California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892  p.626