Tulare County Biographies

ASBURY C. RANEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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It was in Missouri that Asbury C. Raney was born January 12, 1860. Reared and 
educated there, he made his home in that state until 1884. In that year, when he 
was twenty-four years old, he came to California and during the ensuing three 
years lived in Lake county. In October, 1887, he drove down to Tulare county in 
a prairie schooner, stopping at Grangeville. He entered government land on the 
plains near Huron, Fresno county, and after perfecting his title to it 
eventually sold it. For some time he was in the employ of others on farms, 
besides which he did considerable teaming, and for nine years he worked on 
harvesters. In November, 1890, he bought thirty acres of land five miles and a 
half northwest of Hanford, of which twenty-two acres are in vines and about six 
acres in orchard, the balance of the tract being his home site. Later he 
purchased forty acres near Orosi, in the orange belt in Tulare county, and this 
he devotes to general crops.
In 1885 Mr. Raney married Berintha Kern, a native of Missouri, and they have one 
son, Teddy Roosevelt Raney, born in April, 1903, now a student in the public 
school near his home. Socially Mr. Raney affiliates with the Woodmen of the 
World. Politically he entertains progressive ideas and is devoted to the 
development of his district and county and to the best interests of the people 
of the country at large.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 883