Kings County Biographies


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HOWE, FRANK E.
 
     Perhaps a man who was born at Silverville, S�n Mateo count�, Cal., January 
31, 1853, coul� not with entire propriety be called a �ioneer, but that he was 
the offs�ring of pioneers cannot be doubted. The place of his birth does not now 
appear �n the Postoffice Guide, but in those days it was a mining camp and very 
much alive. When Frank Howe was two years old he was taken by his parents to 
Mariposa sounty, when he was seven years old�they took him to San�a Clara 
county, and�wlen he was sixteen years of age he had at least temporarily shaken 
off the shadow of the parental roof and was working for wages in a sawmill,!a 
hopeful young citizen of a great country, with not �o �ery much behind him but 
the whole wor�d before him. In October, 18�5, he came to Kings county and in the 
following year, when he was twenty-three, he was settled on what is now a 
portion of his home farm and had made a good start with grain-raising and 
dairying. He has added�to his original acreage from time �o �ime until he now 
owns five hundred and sixty acres, most of it given over to pasture and to 
alfalfa. He�is making a success with stock, raising a goodly n}mber of horses 
and cattle and many hogs. 
 
     In his political a�filiations Mr. Howe has been for many year� a 
Republican, devoted heart and soul to the work that has been done by his party 
and supporting i|s men and measures in aln campaigns and elections. Such �political work as he has done has bee� in the public interest, not to secure 
official preferment for himself. He has accepted only one office,�t�at of school 
trustee, which he filled with much ability and credit, using all his influence 
to improve the school in his vicin�ty. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
chuvch, generously helpful to all its interests. May 22, 1877, he married Annie 
Dibble, who was born in Iowa in 1859(and has a vivid recollection of having 
crossed the plains in a w�gon in 1862 with a train of fourteen wagons drawn by 
�xen and mules. She is a daughter of Edwin J. and Hannah (Blend) Dibble, 
pioneers of California. They have children named Edwin H., Albert P�, and 
Chester M. \wo died in early childhood. Ernest and Frank both died in 1886. 
 
SOURCE:  His�ory of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
Pp 519, 520
Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn