Merced County Biographies

A. N. SHEESLEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Whoever labors to instill into the minds of the youth the knowledge of 
religion founded on the Bible and for the development of upright Christian 
character, he it is who earns a place as a public benefactor and is entitled to 
mention in the pages of history. Of such a character is A. N. Sheesley, a leader 
in church and Sunday School work and proprietor of a fifty-five acre dairy ranch 
two miles east of Livingston. He was born on July 27, 1871, near Punxsutawney, 
Jefferson County, Pa., a son of A. J. and Sarah J. (Wachob) Sheesley. The former 
is living retired in Colorado at the age of eighty-six. Both parents were born 
in Jefferson County. The mother died in Colorado in 1914. They were the parents 
of nine boys and one girl. The fifth child, A. N. Sheesley, was ten years old 
when his parents moved to Spencer, Ohio, where the father followed farming. From 
Ohio they moved to Clark County, Kansas; nearly ruined by drouth and broke, they 
moved to Burlingame, Osage County, that state. The advantages offered A. N. 
Sheesley by the public schools in Pennsylvania and Kansas were supplemented by a 
course in a business college at Topeka, Kansas, after which he ran a dray 
business for ten years in Burlingame, Kan.
        A. N. Sheesley was married in Burlingame, Kan., to Miss Mabel Wood, a 
native of that place. Of this union were born three children, namely: Glenwood, 
an expert livestock man in the Agricultural College at Davis, Cal.; and Clayton 
and Lois, who are still at home. From Burlingame Mr. Sheesley came to Arena, 
California in 1908, bringing with him a carload of household goods. His 
brother-in-law, C. G. Wood, traveling auditor of the Santa Fe Railroad, was 
already in California.
        Mr. Sheesley has a dairy of twenty registered Guernsey cows and a 
registered bull. He has a home orchard and an acreage of alfalfa and is an 
active member of the Arena Center of the Merced County Farm Bureau. He has been 
superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School at Livingston for many 
years and is chairman of the board of trustees of that church; he served four 
years as president of the California State Sunday School Association as well as 
holding other positions in that organization.
 
History of Merced County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1925
page 733-734