California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 EDWARD PERCY SAILOR.� One of the notably successful young ranchmen in the East Upper Lake precinct of Lake county, Mr. Sailor has a valuable property adjoining Upper Lake on the southeast, and has made his home on that place since 1909. Before he turned his attention exclusively to agricultural work, he had made a reputation for solid worth as a business man, and the experience he gained as a merchant handling and dealing in various products has been of great service to him in his present occupation. Combined with sound business sense he has a capacity for continued industry which would produce results under any circumstances. Gradually he is extending his operations and turning his energies into different lines of agri- culture, and he has prospects of converting his tract of one hundred and one acres into one of the most thoroughly cultivated ranches in his neighborhood. Born in Scotts valley. Lake county, on the ranch where his father, Lafayette Sailor, has lived for the last thirty-five years, he is a son of one of the leading farmers in that section. His father has prospered by intelligent and well directed labor, and he is a most respected citizen, deservedly honored in the locality where so many years of his life have been spent. He is a devout Christian, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Lakeport. Of his family of seven children, two sons and five daughters, E. P. Sailor is the second son and fourth child. Edward P. Sailor was born May 15, 1881, and grew up on the Sailor ranch, meantime attending public school in Scotts valley. Later he entered the Lakeport academy, and then took a course at Sweet's business college, in Santa Rosa, from which school he was graduated in 1900. He soon there- after bought the grocery store of R. E. Hendricks at Lakeport, and for three years conducted a grocery and bakery business by himself, at the end of that time selling a half interest to J. B. Levensaler, wdio about one year afterward bought the other half of the business, which he still conducts. Mr. Sailor then purchased the general store of Morrison & Howe, at Upper Lake, where he did a large general mercantile business for. about two years, until he traded the store for his ranch just southeast of Copper Lake. He has lived there since 1909. Even in the few years he has owned and occupied the place he has been actively engaged in improving it, and in the year 1913 he planted nine acres in Bartlett pear trees. Most of the land, however, he uses for raising alfalfa, cutting three crops a year and usually putting up about two hundred tons of hay annually, having enough to fatten seventy head of cattle for the market and to keep his young stock, cows, etc., over the winter. He has become quite extensively engaged in the raising of beef cattle, usually keeping about one hundred and twenty-five head, and he rents eight hundred acres from the Yolo Water & Power Company for pasture. His expanding interests require constant watchfulness and close management, but he has shown himself fitted for wise planning and able to put his ideas into practice, and his varied undertakings are thriving under a careful guiding hand. Per- sonally he has a reputation for good motives and principles which makes him favorably known to all who have had dealings with him. Mr. Sailor was married at Lakeport, in 1904, to Miss Lulu Kennedy, whose father, Romulus R. Kennedy, now ninety-four years old, is one of the oldest settlers in Lake county, having made his home here for fifty years. As the pioneer carpenter and builder in this section he aided materially in the development of Lakeport, where in his day he did most of the building. Mr. and Mrs. Sailor have one child, Edwena. They are leading members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Upper Lake, and he is one of the devoted workers in the congregation, serving as one of the board of stewards and as trustee. His early church home was at Lakeport, where he attended Sunday school for sixteen years in boyhood and youth. Mr. Sailor is an Odd Fellow, belonging to Lodge No. 241, at Upper Lake. His political support is given to the Republican party.