Kings County Biographies


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MANUEL B. LEMOS
 
A native of one of the Azores, Manuel B. Lemos was born December 11, 1860, in 
the home of a farmer. When he was twenty-two years old he came to the United 
States, and for sixteen months after his arrival was employed on a farm near 
Providence, R. I. Coming to California, he stopped a short time in San 
Francisco, then went to Fresno, where he worked six years on a ranch. The 
succeeding two years he passed in the sheep business, which in his hands was so 
extensive that at one time he and his partner, Manuel Silva Gularte, had 
fourteen hundred sheep. Selling his interest in this venture, he did ranch work 
again for a while, then with a partner he handled sheep for eleven years. By 
this time he had done so well financially that he was able to take a trip to the 
land of his birth.
Returning to Hanford in 1898 Mr. Lemos bought the forty-acre ranch which is now 
his home property, two miles north of the city. All the improvements on the 
farm, including his comfortable house, he has put on since then. In 1905 he 
bought forty acres adjoining his first purchase of his brother, John B. Lemos. 
He has eight acres in vine and twelve in orchard, and the remainder of his land, 
except what he devotes to general farming, is under alfalfa. His principal 
business is the raising of hogs and sheep, but he breeds horses and cows for use 
on his place.
In September, 1896, Mr. Lemos married Maria Clara Cardoza in Hanford, and she 
has borne him ten children. Those living are: John, Bento, Frank, Andrea, 
Manuel, Mary, Joseph and Tony, the first-mentioned four being students in the 
public school. Manuel, the first born, died aged eight years, and Bento died 
aged fifteen months. Mr. Lemos affiliates with the I. D. E. S., of the interests 
of which society he is a liberal supporter. Though of foreign birth, he is a 
loyal American and his public spirit has impelled him to do much for the general 
benefit of his community.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp.  776-777
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler