Fresno County Biographies

H. E. BURLEIGH

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, May, 2007

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	In the foremost ranks of the extensive and successful grain 
growers of Fresno County, we find the subject of this sketch. Mr. Burleigh was 
born in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas, in 1862. His father emigrated to 
California in 1874 and settled in Fresno, where he engaged in mercantile 
business. In 1881, at the age of nineteen years, young Burleigh began his 
business career by teaming. In 1884, in partnership with his brother, F. L. 
Burleigh, he turned his attention to grain farming, beginning on a small scale 
and each year increasing their operations until 1891, when they sowed 4,000 
acres. They rent much of the land they cultivate, but own 460 acres in West 
Park, 100 acres of which are in alfalfa, seventy-six acres in Muscat vines,  and 
four acres in orchard. They keep eighty-six head of work horses and mules, about 
thirty-head of cattle, fifty sheep and goats, from fifty to five hundred hogs - 
according to the market and about fifteen colts. When their teams are not 
employed on the ranch, they keep from one to four ten-mule teams on the road, 
drawing lumber from the mountains. They have two well-improved homes, where they 
reside and look after their extended interests, all of which are in common. Both 
of these gentlemen are full of push and enterprise, and as a result of their 
well directed efforts the are surrounded by the comforts of life. H. E. Burleigh 
was married in Fresno, in 1882, to Miss Mary L. Strickland. They have three 
children, namely: Myrton Everett, Willetta May, and Sarah Elnore. 

Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the County of Fresno, Tulare 
and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, pp. 455-456.