Tulare County Biographies

J. G. Cobb

Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama

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COBB & DOFFLEMYER
 
The firm of Cobb & Dofflemyer of Exeter, California, was formed in 1914 for the 
purpose of engaging in the business of packing and shipping oranges.  It is 
composed of J. G. Cobb and W. T. Dofflemyer, each of whom was interested in the 
fruit growing industry as the owner of orange orchards and vineyards.  During 
the packing season Mr. Cobb acts as outside man, looking after the delivery of 
the fruit to the packing house on time, where Mr. Dofflemyer attends to the 
office work.  The firm handles about three hundred carloads of fruit annually.
 
J. G. Cobb, a son of Joseph and Mary (Crawford) Cobb, was born in Knoxville, 
Tennessee.  His parents were both natives of New York state and returned to that 
state when their son was only about six months old.  In 1888 they went to 
Denver, Colorado, and six years later located in Los Angeles.  J. G. Cobb 
received a good public school education and all his active life he has been 
interested in the fruit business.  From 1912 to 1922 he was the Tulare county 
representative of the Earl Fruit Company, besides having his interest in his own 
firm during the greater part of that time.  He is a member of the Exeter Chamber 
of Commerce and belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.  He married 
Miss Margaret Rucker of San Jose, whose family was one of the oldest in the 
Santa Clara valley.  Mr. Cobb resides on the state highway near Merryman, where 
he has a fine twenty-acre orange orchard.  He also owns a ten-acre orange grove 
near Porterville and a tract of land near Bakersfield.
 
W. T. Dofflemyer was born in Pueblo, Colorado, December 7, 1888.  His parents, 
T. J. and Minnie (Robertson) Dofflemyer, removed to Los Angeles in 1890, where 
the father had extensive real estate interests.  He also owned several hundred 
acres of land in Tulare county, well adapted to raising grapes and citrus 
fruits.  After graduating from the University of California, W. T. Dofflemyer 
located in Exeter and two years later entered into the partnership with Mr. 
Cobb.  He is especially interested in citrus fruits, while his brother, L. L. 
Dofflemyer, looks after the vineyards.  Mr. Dofflemyer belongs to the Kiwanis 
Club and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  Mrs. Dofflemyer was formerly 
Miss Josephine McIntosh, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland.  She is an active 
member of the Exeter Women�s Club.  They have two children:  Frances and Robert.
 
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen Edwards Small & 
J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 
350