Kings County Biographies


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CHARLES HENRY HOWARD
 
A man who is well regarded in Hanford and Kings county is Charles Henry Howard, 
who formerly had to do with ranching and with the oil industry, and who will be 
remembered for his prominence in the partition of the county. Maine is the 
native state of Mr. Howard, his birth occurring February 3, 1850. He attended 
the common schools of the Pine Tree State, which from time immemorial has been 
famous for its public educational system. When he laid away his school books it 
was to take up the implements of the carriage builder and in time he became 
expert in their use, setting up for himself as a carriage builder at Brownsfield 
in Oxford county, western Maine, where he prospered until the spring of 1884, 
when he came to California. In the fall of the same year he located in Hanford 
and for the succeeding eighteen years he most efficiently filled the position of 
superintendent of A. L. Cressy's ranch, a mile from the city. His principal 
concern there was with respect to stock-raising, and he soon developed into one 
of the best informed, most careful and most proficient stockmen in central 
California.
While Mr. Howard was thus employed he bought forty acres of land three and a 
half miles southwest of Hanford which he developed into a profitable vineyard 
and which has been for some time operated by tenants on sharing terms. He also 
made some investments in oil property which turned out quite well. In 1884 he 
married Miss Addie F. Harmon, a native of Maine, who passed away December 21, 
1910. Gifted with all of the natural progressiveness of the down-east Yankee and 
imbued with the spirit of western progress, Mr. Howard has been interested in 
everything pertaining to the development of his community and helpful to all 
local interests.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 657
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler