Kern County Biographies

P. Bernamayou

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006

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	P. Bernamayou is one of the prosperous farmers of Cummings 
Valley. He was born in France, January 17, 1858, and was reared as a farmer. At 
the age of sixteen years he came to America, landing in San Francisco. After 
spending some months on cattle ranges in Southern California, he came to Kern 
County in 1885 and located at Tehachapi. Here he engaged in stock-raising in 
Cummings Valley and subsequently turned his attention to grain farming, in which 
he has been very successful, one year raising as high as 10,000 sacks of barley, 
from which he realized $12,000. He owns 640 acres of land, section 35, all under 
fence. He is one of the most enterprising of men, and is a representative member 
of the French Colony in that region.
 
Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, 
Tulare, and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, p. 318.