Kings County Biographies

Transcribed by Craig A Hahn


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BYRON, LINCOLN HENRY
 
     One of the progressive and up-to-date business men of Lemoore is Lincoln 
Henry Byron, who was born in 1866, in Contra Costa county, Cal. In 1868 he was 
brought by his parents to Lemoore, Kings county, where he has since lived and 
which is now his headquarters for the automobile agency, the success of which 
has made him well known throughout this part of the state. He was educated in 
the public schools of Lemoore and in the University of the Pacific at San Jose, 
and then engaged in farming on the lake bottoms near the lake, where, in 
association with his father for seven years, he operated twenty-seven hundred 
acres. For two years thereafter he was in the livery business at Los Angeles, 
and the next two years he spent as proprietor and manager of the Germania hotel 
at Oxnard. Returning to Kings county he was for two years engaged in boring 
wells for water, and during the next four years he was a traveling agent for the 
Watkins Medicine company, with headquarters at Vancouver, Clark county, Wash. 
Then coming again to Lemoore, he bought in 1906, the Joseph Marriott homestead 
of eighty acres which he developed into a fine vineyard, meantime devoting part 
of his time to dealing in horses and selling tents and awnings. In 1911 he 
bought a half interest in the Lemoore garage. He is the agent for the Ford auto 
for the western half of Kings county, including Lemoore and Coalinga and their 
tributary territory, and so successful has he been in handling this car, which 
ranks among the best, that he sold twenty-one machines between October 31, and 
February 10 following. From time to time other interests have commanded his 
attention and he has invested in oil land in the Devil�s Den country and is 
promoting the oil development in that field. 
 
     In 1887 Mr. Byron married Julia Bozeman and they have three children. Their 
daughter Bertha is the wife of Louis Burke of Coalinga, and their sons, Carl and 
Lawrence, are students in the high school at Lemoore. As a family the Byrons are 
popular wherever they are known. Their circle of acquaintance is wide and 
constantly extending and their influence in all their relations is exerted for 
the uplift of the community. Mr. Byron is a member of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
Pp 485, 486