Tulare County Biographies

LOWERY B. KING

Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn

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     Among the progressive and prosperous Missourians who are making a record of 
success in Central California is L. B. King of Tulare county, whose ranch is on 
rural free delivery route No. 1, out of Visalia. Mr. King was born in Buchanan 
county in the state mentioned, March 5, 1865, a son of James W. and Elizabeth J. 
(Jones) King. He was reared and educated and taught farming in his native state 
as it was practiced there, and in 1886, when he was twenty-one years old, he 
came to California and settled near Visalia and for five years leased and 
operated a ranch belonging to Sands Baker. 
 
     Later Mr. King farmed land in the Kaweah Swamp district for several years 
raising potatoes and other crops which yielded good returns. Then, responding to 
the call of the east, he went to Oklahoma and Missouri and tried to farm there, 
but was driven back to California by destructive droughts; and here he has been 
content to remain ever since; here he firmly believes he will live out his 
allotted days on earth. For a time after his return he was foreman on the Kane 
ranch in Tulare county. Since January, 1907, he has farmed a one hundred and 
twenty acre ranch owned by Sands Baker, his father-in-law, which includes a 
profitable dairy of thirty-five cows. He gives attention to the breeding of 
horses and has several good brood mares which invariably raise fine colts. Hogs 
and chickens are a source of revenue to him; he has forty acres of alfalfa and a 
garden. All in all he is one of the really successful farmers of his part of the 
county. As a citizen he is public�spiritedly helpful. Fraternally he affiliates 
with the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America. While he has 
never been particularly active in political work, he is alert and patriotic in 
the performance of his duties as a voter and has ably filled the office of clerk 
of the school board of the Union district and the office of school trustee.
 
     In 1892 Mr. King married Miss Mattie Baker, a native of Fresno county, and 
they have four children, Ethel F., Lauris M., Sands E. and Helen B. Lauris M. 
was graduated at fourteen from the Union High School, took a course at a 
boarding school in Los Angeles, and is now attending the Visalia high school. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 480, 481