Kings County Biographies


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E. B. METZGER
 
is one of the leading pioneers of California and a most highly esteemed citizen 
of Delano.  He crossed the plains to the coast in 1859 as a member of what is 
known in history as the Traver Expedition, which brought over a band of about 
200 head of horses from South Bend, Indiana.  Mr. Metzger was born at South Bend 
January 5, 1837, and was therefore about twenty-one years of age when he came to 
this State.  His father, Joseph Metzger, was a thrifty farmer and trader, a 
German by birth.  He emigrated from �The Fatherland� at about fourteen years of 
age with his parents; he was a watch and clock-maker by trade, came to 
California in 1849, and died in Sacramento in 1856.  He raised six sons, and E. 
B., the subject of this sketch, is the oldest.  He entered the Union army from 
California in 1862 under Captain E. D. Shirland, served three years in Arizona, 
New Mexico and Texas, and was honorably discharged in 1864.  After his 
retirement from the army he returned to South Bend, Indiana, and there followed 
his trade until he returned to California in 1874.  He lived at Napa two years, 
nine years in Mendocino County, and at Ukiah, where he was Postmaster three 
years, having been appointed by President Arthur.  He came to Delano in 1888. He 
is a tinner by trade, and is doing an extensive business in the manufacture of 
well casings, tanks, pumps and irrigating outfits.  He married, in 1867, Miss 
Anna M. Tatt, of South Bend, Indiana.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, 
California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892  p. 719
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler