Tulare County Biographies

JAMES R. BEQUETTE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Conspicuous among those ambitious men who are fast coming to the front in Tulare 
county is that native son of the county, James R. Bequette of Lemon Cove, who 
was born near Farmersville, in 1861. His education in the public school, which 
was well begun, was interrupted when he was fourteen years old by the death of 
his father, a native of Missouri, who was a California pioneer of 1852. The 
years after that event which otherwise would have been devoted to his books he 
was obliged to spend in laboring for his living. His first independent ventures 
were in stock-raising, with which he was long successful. In 1909 he went into 
the fruit business and has since set out many orange trees, his entire place 
being now devoted to that fruit.
In 1891 Mr. Bequette married Miss Carrie McKee, a native of Missouri and a 
daughter of the late John McKee. Mrs. Bequette has borne her husband two 
daughters, Rita and Velma. The former was educated at the Lemon Cove public 
school and at the Exeter, high school and is now in her seventeenth year. The 
latter, now in her fourteenth year, is attending school at Lemon Cove. Mr. 
Bequette's mother was a native of the state of New York. Mrs. Bequette's mother 
lives at Lemon Cove.
Fraternally Mr. Bequette affiliates with the organization of Artisans at Lemon 
Cove. While he is interested in political questions from the point of view of 
the intelligent voter, he is not a practical politician and has never aspired to 
public preferment. He votes at all elections and usually deposits a Democratic 
ticket. In a public-spirited way he has always been devoted to the general 
interests of the community.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 669-670