Kings County Biographies


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CECIL FRIEND.
 
        Although comparatively young in years, the subject of this sketch has 
demonstrated in no uncertain way that what he lacks in length of experience is 
more than made up by sound judgment, industrious habits and progressive methods, 
so that today he occupies a high position among the successful and enterprising 
business men of Lemoore, Kings county, California.
        Cecil Friend is a native son of the city in which he now lives, having 
been born here on the 26th of September, 1900. He was reared at home and secured 
his education in the public schools, having graduated from the high school. He 
then attended the University of California and in 1920 he returned to Lemoore 
and started in the transfer and hauling business for himself. By giving prompt 
service and performing all jobs in a conscientious and satisfactory manner, he 
soon won the confidence and good will of the people and his business has 
steadily grown from the beginning, until today he commands the major part of the 
business in his line.
In May, 1924, he started doing business under the name of "Friend Service, 
Ice-Fuel-Transfer." By introducing rural ice service as well as city, his ice 
business has grown until in August, 1925, he finished the construction of a cold 
storage plant, containing rooms for ice storage, eggs and vegetables, chilling 
room for meat and two hundred individual cold storage boxes for the farmer to 
freeze his products for his own con�sumption months afterwards. He operates five 
large trucks and makes a specialty of heavy hauling, such as live stock, hay, 
machinery and other heavy material. He also carries a stock of coal and wood, 
which he sells to local consumers. No job is too difficult for him to tackle and 
the character of the service he has rendered has given him marked prestige in 
the community.
        Personally, Mr. Friend is a man of excellent habits and genial and 
companionable disposition and has won and retains a host of loyal friends. He 
was married to Miss Myldred Hannah, of Lemoore, and they have a daughter, Betty 
Leigh, aged five years.
 
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. 611
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler