Tulare County Biographies

KATHLEEN EDWARDS SMALL

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Kathleen Edwards Small, a representative young native daughter of Tulare 
county, has been active in the field of journalism in connection with the 
Visalia Daily Times for the past seven years and is also well known in musical 
circles by reason of her talent as a vocalist. She was born in Visalia, this 
state, on the 25th of July, 1891, her parents being George Follette Wilson and 
Mary Katharine (Dafter) Small, the former of Oconomowoc and the latter of 
Watertown, Wisconsin. It was in January, 1891 that Mr. and Mrs. George F. W. 
Small made their way westward to California and took up their abode in Visalia, 
where their daughter Kathleen was born six months later. The father, a mining 
engineer by profession, died in the City of Mexico in 1913.
        Kathleen E. Small supplemented her grammar school education by a high 
school course, which she completed by graduation in 1911. The study of music had 
always been of delight and interest to her, and it was with the purpose of 
developing her talent in this direction that she left Visalia and entered 
Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois. Miss Small still continues her 
musical studies and has gained more than local renown for her manifest ability 
therein, particularly excelling as a vocalist. Since October, 1918, she has been 
identified with the Visalia Daily Times and her efforts in the field of 
journalism during the intervening period of seven years have been attended with 
marked and well merited success. Miss Small makes her home with her mother and 
her brother at No. 313 West School street in Visalia, where she is deservedly 
popular in social circles.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 410