Tulare County Biographies

CHARLES O. GILL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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No ranchman in the Porterville district of Tulare county is more widely or more 
favorably known than C. o. Gill, who lives seven miles and a half north of that 
city. Born in Ohio, August 15, 1863, he was taken to Iowa and there remained 
till he was ten years old, then was brought by his parents to California. The 
family located in Tulare county, and here the boy was sent to school at the 
Yokohl valley school house, where, under the tutelage of the teachers there 
employed, he acquired a practical education which has been of great benefit to 
him in his active life as a stockman and man of affairs.
The first work to which Mr. Gill gave attention was among his father's stock, 
and when he was twenty he was raising cattle on his own account, and from that 
day to this his energies have been directed to the advancement of this one kind 
of business. He has found this concentration profitable. In 1888 he homesteaded 
one hundred and sixty acres of public land, and since then has bought tracts, 
from time to time, till he now has twelve thousand acres, all of which is 
devoted to stock-raising. He keeps on hand about six hundred head of cattle and 
from fifteen to twenty horses. His homestead is fitted up with all appliances 
and improvements essential to a successful enterprise in his line.
In 1887 Mr. Gill married Miss Clemmie Anderson, a native daughter, whose father, 
Garland Anderson, came to California in 1851, among the pioneers. They have two 
children, Maurice, born in 1889, and Ada, born in October, 1910. The son was 
educated in the Frazier school and is assisting his father in his business 
affairs.
In the city markets, in which Mr. Gill always sells his cattle and hogs, he is 
popular and highly respected because of his fair and square business methods. In 
all of the relations of life he is friendly and helpful and as a citizen he has 
many times demonstrated his public spirit.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 587-588