California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


ALBERT V. GLOUGIE. � A close observer and a thoroughly wide- 
awake man. who has amassed a fund of valuable experience, particularly in 
the best methods of farming, and who has improved many acres by bringing 
them under intensive cultivation, is A. V. Glougie, who first came to Fresno 
County in January, 1902. He was born in Austin. Minn., in 1866, and was 
reared in Adams, Iowa. His father. John R. Glougie, was of French extrac- 
tion, and was born at Belvidere, Vt. His mother was Martha Hull before 
her marriage ; she was also a native of Vermont and was united to Mr. 
Glougie in her native state. During the Civil War. John Glougie was in a 
Vermont regiment of the Union Army, served two years and eleven months, 
and was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness. Later he came to Austin, 
Minn., and went in for farming; and in 1871 he secured a farm in Adams 
County. Finally, the parents came on to Fresno, and here the father died, 
while the mother resides on Blackstone Avenue, the mother of thirteen chil- 
dren, nine of whom are living. 

A. V. Glougie is the oldest of these, and was brought up on a farm in 
Iowa, at the same time that he attended the public schools. He continued at 
home assisting his father, and married in Adams County, choosing Miss Lizzie 
Ammond, a native of Adams County, as his bride. He bought a farm of new 
prairie land on which he was the first to break land and later he bought more 
land and soon had a fine farm. 

In January. 1902. he came to California and located near Parlier ; and 
after a year he moved to Sanger where he bought eighty acres of new land. 
and devoted it to alfalfa, leveling and checking, and also setting out a vine- 
yard. He bought other lands and .owned other vineyards and orchards. He 
had a lemon and an orange orchard, and did well. 

The year 1911 found Mr. Glougie near Brawley in the Imperial Valley, 
where he engaged in ranching, having sold his Fresno interests: and there 
he made a specialty of raising hogs. In a year he sold out and returned to 
Fresno County. He bought a ranch at Barstow and sold it, and then he 
bought a ranch on Fillmore Avenue and sold that. Next he bought forty 
acres on California Avenue, eleven miles west of Fresno; this he improved, 
and he raises alfalfa and figs, making one of the finest showings in that section. 

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Glougie. Francis resides at 
Fresno ; Blanche, who had become Mrs. Rudolph Garber, died in 1916 in her 
twenty-sixth year; Bernice is Mrs. Carter Anderson of Madera County; and 
Vernon is at home. 

In national politics Mr. Glougie is a Republican; but he deems it his 
duty as an independent citizen to support good local measures irrespective 
of party obligations, and so he works for a constantly higher standard in civic 
affairs.