Kings County Biographies


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DEARDORFF, OSCAR SAMUEL
 
     That well-known farmer, Oscar Samuel Deardorff, whose success near Hanford, 
Kings county, Cal., is being commented on in farming circles in all the country 
round about, is not only a native of California, but the son of a native of 
California, a fact which gives him a double claim to notice in a work of this 
character. He was born February 29, 1880, not far from his present home, a son 
of John H. Deardorff, who was born in Amador county, Cal., in 1852, came to 
Kings county in 1873 and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, winning much 
success, until he retired from active business.
 
     In the Cross Creek school, Oscar S. Deardorff was a student until he was 
seventeen years old. Thereafter he assisted his father until he attained his 
majority, and then he went into business for himself as a farmer and hog raiser. 
His success has been more than noteworthy and he is now the owner of a ranch of 
one hundred and twenty acres, highly improved, which is equipped with good 
buildings of all kind essential to its operation and with machinery and 
appliances of the most modern construction. Mr. Deardorff�s knowledge of farming 
is both accurate and diversified and he is probably as good a judge of all that 
affects the production of good crops as any rancher in his neighborhood. 
 
     September 9, 1903, Mr. Deardorff married Irene M. Dodge, a native of Kings 
county, born August 11, 1881. Socially he affiliates with the Fraternal 
Brotherhood and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Beyond doing his full 
duty as a citizen, at the polls and elsewhere, he is not particularly active in 
politics, but his understanding of public questions is definite and his 
knowledge of all affairs of state is exact and comprehensive. He has in many 
ways demonstrated that he possess public spirit adequate to all reasonable 
demands upon it. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
Pp 515, 516
Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn