Kings County Biographies


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KELSO H. SIM
 
a rancher near Hanford, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1862.  His father, 
W. C. Sim, was for twenty years a member of the India Civil Service, as 
Presiding Magistrate over one State of the Madras Presidency.  He retired in 
1861, and is now living in Devonshire.
            Kelso H. Sim was educated at the private school of Miss Hill, 
Cheltenham, with a three-years course at Winchester college.  In 1871 he entered 
the college for infantry service, then conducted by Professor Wolffram, at 
Blackheath, London, and during the course of three years Mr. Sim was in the 
Fourth Battalion, Devonshire Regiment of Militia, stationed at Exeter, 
Devonshire.  Through the influence of the late Sir William Robinson, he was 
induced to come to California in 1882, and after passing one year at the house 
of Mr. J. S. Robinson, he purchased his present ranch of eighty-two and one-half 
acres, one mile south of town.  This he has improved by planting seventeen acres 
in raisin vines, fifteen acres in fruit, and the remainder in alfalfa.  He also 
has about thirty head of horses, with three stallions of the Norman, 
Hambletonian and trotting strains.  The ranch is slightly elevated, and his fine 
house, built in 1886, commands a pleasing view of the fertile plain, backed by 
the coast range on the west, and Sierra Nevada in the east.
            He was married in Fresno in 1884, to Miss Alma E. Perry, a native 
daughter of the golden West.  This union has been blessed with two children, 
Alexander Earl Clulow, and Douglas Abercrombie Hamilton.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, 
California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892  p. 672
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler