Tulare County Biographies

STACEY E. NAYLOR

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Stacey E. Naylor, deputy sealer of weights and measures for Tulare 
county, California, is a native of Michigan, born in the city of Benton Harbor, 
February 16, 1891. When he was about three years of age his parents removed to 
Oklahoma. In 1904 they came to California and settled in Dinuba, Tulare county. 
After graduating from the Dinuba high school, Stacey took the engineering course 
in the Oakland Polytechnic School and was then engaged in the jewelry business 
in Dinuba until the United States entered the great World war.
        Mr. Naylor then entered the United States navy and was assigned to duty 
on one of the submarine chasers. While in the service he was stationed for a 
time at San Pedro, California, then was ordered to the eastern coast and was in 
New York Harbor until after the signing of the armistice. When he received his 
honorable discharge he was chief machinist on the United States Supply ship 
Surprise. He saw no foreign service.
        After the war Mr. Naylor was engaged in ranching near Dinuba, but sold 
out there and embarked in the mercantile business in Badger.  Disposing of his 
interest in Badger, his next business venture was as a ranchman near Cutler 
until appointed to his present position, in which he has made good and has won 
the reputation of an efficient and conscientious official.
        Mr. Naylor is a member of Alta Post No. 19, American Legion, of Dinuba. 
The Legion is an organization composed of those who served in the army and navy 
of the United States in the World war and is devoted to aiding disabled veterans 
and their families, collecting and preserving historical data relating to the 
service of the legionaires, and keeping alive the fraternal relations among 
their comrades in arms. Mrs. Naylor before her marriage was Miss Rowena Fraser, 
a native of Dinuba, Tulare county. They have two sons : Jack and Paul.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., pp. 29-30