Kings County Biographies


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ELERY H. CHURCH
 
Nine miles south of Hanford, in Kings county, Cal., is the well appointed dairy 
farm of Elery H. Church, one of the most progressive and successful men in his 
line in that vicinity. Mr. Church is a Californian by right of birth, having 
been born in San Joaquin county August 7, 1875, a son of Caryl Church. When the 
son was yet quite young the father moved his family to Tulare county, and there 
Elery grew to manhood and gained an education in the public schools, meanwhile 
acquiring a pretty thorough training in farming on his father's ranch and under 
his father's careful instruction. His first venture for himself was on six 
hundred and forty acres of his father's land, and the following year he farmed 
eight hundred acres in the lake district. Thus far his success had been but 
indifferent. His next move was to his present homestead, which then consisted of 
one hundred acres, half of which he devoted to alfalfa, the remainder to general 
farming. In 1908 he bought eighty acres of farm land adjoining the original home 
farm on the west, and here his success has been all that he could have desired. 
His principal business is dairying, and he owns usually about forty cows, 
milking the year round from twenty to twenty-five, and raises each year as many 
hogs as he can conveniently feed.
In 1905 Miss Gertrude Brock, of Kings county, became Mr. Church's wife and she 
has borne him two children, Susan and Clifford. Not only does Mr. Church take 
rank with the leading farmers and dairymen in his part of the county, but as a 
citizen he has shown a patriotic devotion to the general good which has 
commended him to the good opinion of all who know him. Though he is not 
especially active in public work he fully performs his duty as a citizen, as a 
voter and otherwise, and has well defined opinions upon all questions of public 
policy and acts consistently with his party upon every question of political 
economy which is brought before the people.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 672
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler