Kern County Biographies

C. H. BELCHER

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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C. H. BELCHER was born in Worcester County, Massachusetts, April 20, 1858. His 
father, Gilbert J. Belcher, a blacksmith and carriage maker by trade, was born 
near Boston. His mother is also a native of Massachusetts. She now resides in 
Monrovia, California. Of their three children, Charles H., the subject of this 
sketch, was the second born Another son, Fred G., is a manufacture in San 
Francisco.
   Mr. Belcher commenced his business life as a traveling salesman for a furniture 
house of Worcester, Massachusetts; came west in 1885 and clerked for the well 
known furniture house of Chabourne & Co. , San Francisco, and was subsequently a 
clerk in the Golden Rule Bazaar. In 1886 he came to Tehachapi and purchased and 
located on eight acres of land, the east half of the northeast quarter of 
section 14, township 32, south range 31 east, located in Bear valley.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California 
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 - p 683