Tulare County Biographies

WILLIAM E. GOBLE

Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn

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     In Coles county, Ill., November 18, 1872, William E. Goble, now a resident 
of Tulare county, two and one-half miles east of Orosi, was born. He is widely 
known as a pioneer in this section and as a successful nurseryman. When he was 
nineteen years old he went to Labette county, Kans., where he lived six years. 
From that state W. E. Goble came to Tulare county, where he bought sixty acres 
of an old place on which an orchard had been established about 1871. He now has 
four thousand small orange trees and ten thousand grape vines in three 
varieties, six thousand Malagas, three thousand Thompsons, and one thousand 
Emperors, all which he intends using on his own place. He has nine acres of 
Emperors grapes, six acres of Malagas and four acres of Muscats. He is gradually 
working out of the nursery business and caring for his own land. Water is made 
available from wells from which it is drawn by means of rotary pumps, and a 
continual flow of thirty inches assure him a sufficient quantity for the entire 
place. 
 
     While he was living in Kansas, Mr. Goble married Miss Ida Stoddard, a 
native of Indiana, and they have two children, Gladys and Reva Goble. His 
parents were John and Catherine (Reynolds) Goble, the former now living in 
Kansas and the latter died in Illinois in 1890. Politically he is an industrial 
organizer and socially he affiliates with the Fraternal Brotherhood of America. 
He holds membership in the Baptist church. As a citizen he is progressive and 
public-spirited, willing at all times to contribute liberally to the support of 
any measure which in his opinion promises to benefit the community at large.
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913  Pp 258, 261