Tulare County Biographies

ELDRIDGE C. FARNSWORTH

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        For the past thirty-five years Eldridge C. Farnsworth, Sr., member of 
the law firm of Farnsworth, McClure, Burke & Maddox has practiced his profession 
in Visalia, California, and is now one of the oldest and best known members of 
the local bar. He was born in Mariposa county, California, where his father, 
Calvin E. Farnsworth, resided for forty years. Calvin E. Farnsworth was a native 
of what is now the state of West Virginia. He married Ann Isabel McCready, who 
was born in Ireland, reared in Pennsylvania, and in 1859 came to California.
        Eldridge C. Farnsworth was educated in the San Francisco schools, after 
which he entered the Hastings Law College, from which he was graduated in 1884. 
The same year he was admitted to practice by the California supreme court. From 
that time until 1890 he practiced in Amador county and part of that time was 
district attorney. In 1890 he came to Visalia, where he has since resided and 
has taken an interest in many local matters pertaining to the public weal. He 
served for some time as president of the Visalia Board of Education, and in 1894 
was elected mayor of the city.
        Mr. Farnsworth is a prominent figure in fraternal circles. He is a 
member of Visalia Lodge No. 128, F. & A. M.; is also Royal Arch Mason, a Knight 
Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine in Islam Temple of San Francisco ; a 
Knight of Pythias; a member of Visalia Lodge No. 1298, Benevolent Protective 
Order of Elks, and belongs to the Woodmen of the World.
        While practicing law in Amador county Mr. Farnsworth was married to Miss 
Cora Madge McLaine, a native of that county, and they have two daughters : Mrs. 
Lillian M. Burke of Visalia ; and Mrs. Winifred F. Booth of Los Angeles.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 161