Kings County Biographies


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HARRY JEROME RAISCH
 
The ability to see a good opportunity and the promptness and energy which 
enables a man to take time by the forelock are as requisite to the farmer who 
would succeed as to men in any other business or profession, and perhaps in his 
work these factors are brought into demand oftener than in the work of his 
neighbors in other walks of life. One who has demonstrated this fact by the 
sagacious buying of good land, and by improving and cultivating it with due 
regard for all influencing conditions, is H. J. Raisch, who lives five miles 
north of Hanford, in Kings county, Cal.
It was in the honored old state of Kentucky that Mr. Raisch was born on February 
7, 1861. However, he lived there but a comparatively short time, for he was 
early taken by his family to Kansas, where he was reared to manhood, educated in 
the public schools and initiated into the details of practical farming. In. 
1883, when he was about twenty-two years old, he came to Hanford, where he 
prospered for some years at teaming and as a farmer on rented land. In 1907 he 
bought twenty-two acres five miles north of the city, ten acres of which was a 
fine peach orchard. He has since acquired an adjoining tract of the same area 
and is preparing to go quite extensively into fruit culture. Besides this 
property he owns one hundred and sixty acres of grazing land on the west side 
which he rents out. In 1912 he inherited twenty-two acres of his father's 
estate, which is located opposite his home place and is all in vines. He has 
improved his homestead with buildings and fences and outfitted it with 
everything in the way of machinery and appliances that is essential to the 
successful prosecution of his enterprise.
In 1885 Mr. Raisch united his fortunes by marriage with those of Miss Cinderella 
Barlow, who by her sympathy and advice has aided him materially in the winning 
of his most substantial success. Genial of disposition and social in all his 
instincts, he has from time to time identified himself with fraternal orders, 
notably with the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World. As a citizen 
he has shown his devotion to the general good by giving all due encouragement to 
such measures as have been promoted for the development of his town, county and 
state.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 604-605
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler