Tulare County Biographies

Wilbur Coolidge

Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn

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     A comparatively late comer to California who achieved success here was 
Wilbur Coolidge, who lives on rural free delivery route number three, 
Porterville, Tulare county. Mr. Coolidge was a native of the state of 
Pennsylvania, born December 24, 1849. He was reared and educated in the Keystone 
state and lived near Wellsboro, until the fall of 1908, when he came to 
California and located in Tulare county. Most of his years of manhood were 
passed in the work of a skillful joiner. 
 
     In 1873 Mr. Coolidge married Miss Lucy Kimball, of Pennsylvania, who has 
borne him six children; Jennie married S. F. Bellinger and lives in Philadelphia 
Pa; Leon is married and lives in Kent, Ohio; Purley V. is married and a resident 
of Tulare county, Cal.; Milton, who is married is associated with his brother 
Purley in conducting the ranch; Morton, next in order of birth, is in San 
Francisco; Gordon is in school. Mrs. Coolidge�s parents, Hiram and Katharine 
Kimball, have passed away.
 
     Mr. Coolidge bought twenty-six acres of raw land which he set to the best 
grade of oranges. He was interested in everything that pertained to the uplift 
of his community, in schools, in churches, and in politics. Especially did the 
economic questions which have so much to do with the general prosperity invite 
his thought, and as a voter he considered all things involved very carefully 
before casting his ballot for specific men or measures. Mr. Coolidge passed away 
September 10, 1912, aged sixty-three years. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 518, 519