Kern County Biographies

THOMAS LAVERS

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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THOMAS LAVERS, one of the substantial citizens of Lynn�s valley, came to Kern 
County in 1859. His native home is Nova Scotia, and his father�s name was James 
Lavers, who was a farmer by occupation. Upon arriving in California Mr. Lavers 
first spent one month in San Francisco, and then engaged in farming in the Santa 
Clara valley. He remained there, however, but a short time, and took up his 
residence in Lynn�s valley in the early part of 1860, where he has since resided 
and successfully pursued farming and stock-raising.
   He married in Visalia, in 1875, Miss Mary Gurnette, and they have four bright 
children,- Etta, Lewis, Winifred and Lawrence. Mr. Lavers owns 160 acres of good 
land in Lynn�s valley, where he ranges 150 head of cattle and about thirty 
horses. He is a man of unpretentious and quiet manners, strictly reliable and 
highly-esteemed.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 - page 662