California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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ERROLL C. KITTRELL. � A successful and promising farmer of Fresno 
County, is Erroll C. Kittrell of the Barstow Colony, a native son. born in 
Fresno, on September 17, 1889. His father was William J. Kittrell. who was 
born in the Sacramento Valley and became one of the early settlers of Fresno, 
having been for a while in the post office there. Then for twenty years he 
was in the Fresno Agricultural Works, where he acted as manager. Now he is 
in the real estate business in Fresno, his reputation for integrity and judg- 
ment going far to influence the would-be customer. Mrs. Kittrell was Ella 
M. Vezey before her marriage, and she was a native daughter, her birth- 
place being near Modesto. 

Erroll, an only child, was educated in the public schools of Fresno and 
the Fresno high school, which he attended until his junior year, when he went 
east to the Kemper Military School at Boonville, Mo., from which he was 
graduated in 1909. On his return to Fresno, he clerked three years in the 
hardware store of Barrett & Hicks, then he went to Lemoore to take charge 
of the hardware department of W. L. Scally, returning to Fresno in a year to 
enter the employ of H. Graff & Company in their hardware department. 

A year later he engaged in business for himself and started a hardware 
store on Merced Street between J and I Streets in what was known as the 
Kittrell Building. At the end of eighteen months, however, he sold out to 
take up farming. He bought his present place of eighty acres and was soon 
busy setting out a vineyard and an orchard. He also has twenty-five acres in 
alfalfa under the Herndon Canal and an eighty-foot well. There are ten 
acres of Thompson seedless grapes, and forty acres in peaches, muir and lov- 
ells being the specialty. He is a member of the California Peach Growers,' 
Inc., and of the California Associated Raisin Company. 

In Fresno, Mr. Kittrell was married to Miss Hazel Hague, a native of 
Fresno who grew up and was educated there, and one child, William Mad- 
ison Kittrell, blessed the fortunate marriage. Mr. Kittrell is a Democrat in 
national politics, and an ardent supporter of every worthy movement for 
local improvement. He was made a Mason in Fresno Lodge, No. 247, F. 
& A. M.