Tulare County Biographies

FRED SAHROIAN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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This skillful farmer is well known and respected in the vicinity of Yettem, 
where he is enjoying prosperity as the result of well-directed effort. He was 
born November 25, 1884, and remained in his native Armenia until he was fourteen 
years old, then came to the United States with his father and at Philadelphia, 
Pa., ate his first turkey dinner, an experience which he will always remember. 
After a short stay there, he came to California and settled in Fresno county, 
where he lived seven years. He attended school for a time, farming and 
fruit-growing for wages and learning the work and the ways of the country.
It was to Tulare county, where he has since lived, that Mr. Sahroian went from 
Fresno county in 1907. He soon bought twenty acres of land and later forty acres 
more, making a farm of sixty acres, which he has improved with a house, a barn 
and other necessary buildings. He has forty-three acres under vines, seven acres 
bearing peaches and ten acres devoted to oranges. One year he sold twelve tons 
of Thompson seedlings from six acres; also eleven and one-half tons of Muscats, 
and forty-eight tons of Zinfandels. His orange grove is young and his peach 
trees are just coming into bearing. As a citizen he has the good opinion of his 
neighbors, and fraternally he affiliates with the Yettem Banavalum club. 
Politically he is a Republican. He married Victoria Meledonian in April, 1912.
Mr. Sahroian's parents, Melick and Elbis Sahroian, are members of his household. 
Of their six children he is one of the most helpful to them. His sister married 
James Dagdighian and lives at Selma, Fresno county. Mr. Sahroian, still loving 
his native land with true patriotism, is nevertheless thoroughly Americanized, 
and his aspirations are all for the future greatness of his adopted country. In 
many ways he has shown that he possesses a commendable public spirit and there 
is no local interest that does not have his encouragement and support.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 823-824