Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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JOHN SALLEE PUGH. � One of the successful viticulturists here- 
abouts, and yet a man who is never so occupied that he has not some time 
to spare for the general advancement of agricultural interests in California, 
or for the extension of hospitality to the stranger, thereby maintaining pleas- 
antly a fine old California tradition, is John Sallee Pugh, who owns a place 
of eighty acres and leases another tract just as large on Ventura Avenue, 
eleven and a half miles east of Fresno. A native son of the Golden State, Mr. 
Pugh was born near Pennington, Sutter County, in 1873, the son of John M. 
Pugh, who settled in California in 1858 and is represented on another page of 
this work. 

Brought up at Stonyford, Colusa County, where he attended the public 
school until he was fourteen, John accompanied his parents to Fresno County 
when they moved here, and continued his schooling at Orange Center, after 
which he went to the Oakland Polytechnic, where he took a business course. 
Returning to Fresno, he assisted his father and moved with him and the rest 
of the family, in 1905, to a ranch of 140 acres in the Kutner Colony. Here 
the father and his sons engaged in viticulture and horticulture until the death 
of the former, when John pushed out for himself. 

He at first purchased a forty-acre vineyard in the Kutner Colony, to 
which he gave his most careful attention until, in 1915, he sold it, and then 
he bought forty acres of his present ranch in the Granville district. This he 
has improved and made into a fine vineyard. In 1918 he bought forty acres 
adjoining, so that he now has eighty acres in a body. The new forty is planted 
to alfalfa. 

Since he came to Fresno County, on June 19, 1888, Mr. Pugh has seen 
great improvements in the region which then had but few vineyards and 
now boasts of over a hundred thousand acres. He has found pleasure in 
vigorously promoting the aims of the California Associated Raisin Company. 
He supports the candidates of the Democratic party; while in fraternal cir- 
cles he is a Mason, having been made a Mason in Selma Lodge, No. 277, 
F. & A. M. 

Looking back over past years and conditions, and contrasting the present 
vastly improved state of affairs, Mr. Pugh is one of the most optimistic 
acclaimers of a glorious future for this great commonwealth.