Kern County Biographies

DAN S. LIGHTNER

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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DAN S. LIGHTNER- there is probably not a citizen of Kern County who has 
displayed more energy and thus far spent a more active life than Dan S. 
Lightner. He is a member of one of the oldest and most popular families of the 
Kern river valley, and son of the late Abiah Lightner, Esq. He was born in La 
Fayette County, Missouri, July 17, 1839, and came to California in 1856 with his 
parents, under circumstances as recited in a sketch of the family, which appears 
elsewhere in this work.
   Mr. Lightner spent several years in mining, stock-raising, hotel-keeping and 
contracting in the mining and timber regions of the Kern river valley. He 
married Miss Jennie Dunlap, in 1867, by whom he has two accomplished daughters 
living, Mary and Carrie. They are among the most popular and successful public 
school teachers of Kern county. A son and daughter, Frank and Belle, are 
deceased. Mr. Lightner is engaged in the lumber and milling business at 
Tehachapi, the Lightner mill- a double circular steam mill - being one of the 
best of its kind in Central California. He is a useful citizen, a man of correct 
habits, and enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know him.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California 
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 - p 683