Kern County Biographies

HULDA SNELL

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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HULDA SNELL, a venerable and highly esteemed lady of Tehachapi, is one of the 
early settlers of the Tehachapi valley. Mrs. Snell has been three times married. 
With her second husband, James E. Williams, she came to this valley as early as 
1867. In 1869 they located at Old Town, where they erected the first dwelling 
house, and a little later the first hotel, known as the Mountain House, fronting 
to the railway station.
   Mr. Williams was an active business man and a respected citizen. He died in 
1875, leaving five children; Isabella, now Mrs. Jesse Morrow, of Fresno; Laura, 
Mrs. E. Calhoun, of Selma; Milam, a resident of Norwalk, Los Angeles County; 
Sierra N., wife of William H. Knapp, of Tehachapi; and Major, a rancher and 
stock man of Tehachapi.
   By her marriage to Mr. Snell, Mrs. Snell had no children. Although somewhat 
advanced in years, she is a woman of affairs; owns and manages a ranch besides 
other property in Tehachapi.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 - page 321