Kings County Biographies


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JOHN SIGLER
 
It was in the Old Dominion, the Mother of States, and the mother also of men who 
have won fortune in every state in the Union, that John Sigler was born, 
February 3, 1852. Such schooling as was available to him in his boyhood he 
obtained near his father's home, and at seventeen he moved to Maryland, where he 
lived four or five years before he came to California. He located in Yolo county 
in 1873 and in 1875 came to Tulare county and bought three hundred and twenty 
acres of land six miles southwest of the site of Hanford, his present home. He 
helped to secure the Lakeside ditch and with its aid developed his farm and grew 
grain for twenty years until he gave up grain in favor of cattle and sheep, 
which were his principal products till he turned his attention to general 
farming, though he raised a good many hogs. He has recently bought one hundred 
and sixty acres, distant from his homestead about half a mile, which he will put 
into alfalfa. His interests in irrigation ditches has not been confined to the 
one just mentioned, for lie is a stockholder in both the Lakeside ditch and the 
New Deal ditch.
In 1875, when Mr. Sigler first came to Tulare county to land, which was selling 
very cheaply at that time, he arrived in Visalia and from there he came across 
the country to Lemoore. Some few ditches had been started, but none completed. 
From the appearance of the soil he concluded that the land would wear out with a 
couple of crops after irrigation began, and cease to yield paying returns. 
However he determined to purchase property and the returns he has reaped since 
that date show that his prediction was not fulfilled. By farming to wheat many 
years the soil did show the ill effects, but with fruit and rotation of crops 
wonderful returns are possible.
In all things Mr. Sigler is conservative. He is especially so in his political 
views, and while he glories in the progressive principles of American democracy 
he has no desire to be classed with traveling Republicans. His interest in 
public education impelled him to accept the trusteeship of the Rustic school 
district, which he is discharging with characteristic efficiency and fidelity.
In 1887 Mr. Sigler married Miss Lodema N. Dewey and she has borne him three 
daughters, Leah and Catherine, who are members of their parents' household, and 
Arlie, who is the wife of Marvin Roberts.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
pp. 611-612
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler