Tulare County Biographies

ARCHIE F. LANEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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A native son of California and of Tulare county, Archie F. Laney was born in 
1877, a son of George W. and Octavia (Retherford) Laney. His father was born in 
Ohio and came to California in 1873; he was married in Iowa. He bought land and 
raised grain and cattle until he retired from active work about fifteen years 
ago, when his sons assumed the management, and they have continued the business 
in which he was the pioneer and are yet raising and buying and selling stock, 
being as well known in the market as any other dealers in the central part of 
the state. Their ranch comprises twelve hundred acres and they carry about three 
hundred fat cattle each year, raising only enough grain for feed and growing 
alfalfa for their own use. The father passed away November 13, 1912.
While Archie Laney has never taken an active interest in practical politics and 
has never sought public office, he has well defined ideas concerning all 
questions of economic bearing and in a very public-spirited way performs his 
whole duty as a citizen. In fact, if we may believe those who know him best and 
are best able to testify in such a matter, he is liberally helpful to all 
movements having for their object the advancement and prosperity of the 
community and in a private way has many times proven himself a dependable 
friend, doing what he could by word and deed to help struggling neighbors over 
some of the stony places in life's pathway.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 565-566