Tulare County Biographies

JOHN WILLIAM HARVEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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The successful vineyardist of Waukena, Tulare county, Cal., John W. Harvey, is a 
native of Cumberland county, Ky., and was born October 2, 1863. He attended 
public school until he was seventeen years old, then turned his attention to 
farming for which he had fitted himself by practical experience during all the 
days of his youth. In 1885 he went to Hill county, Tex., where for two years he 
grew corn and made crops of cotton. Then he returned to his old home, and after 
remaining there for a short time came in December, 1888, to Tulare county and 
settled on the place which is now his home farm, none of which, however, did he 
purchase until 1890, when he became the owner of fourteen acres of bare land. 
Meanwhile, he devoted one year to the service of the Kings River Lumber Company. 
He has made other land purchases from time to time, as he has prospered and laid 
aside money for the purpose, and he now owns ninety-five acres of good land in 
the Waukena neighborhood. For the past fifteen years he has been the proprietor 
of a combined harvester, which he has operated in season and which he has made a 
source of considerable yearly profit. He is a farmer of skill and resource, who 
knows his ground and his seed and every condition of locality and climate that 
can possibly affect crop production, and his success is achieved not only by 
industry, but by careful attention to every detail of the work in hand.
Fraternally Mr. Harvey affiliates with the Fraternal Aid Association. In his 
political alliance he is a Democrat. On October 3, 1893, he married Miss Carrie 
F. Torrey, who was born in St. Louis, Mo., November 16, 1862, and they have 
three children, Elizabeth, Catherine and John W.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 530-531