Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


RUSSELL UHLER. � Of particular historic interest as a public official, 
because of the fact that he is the first to occupy his position as county 
purchasing agent since his department was created, is Russell Uhler, a native 
of the Golden State and the son of J. Clement and Emma (Conkling) Uhler. 
His father was a banker and stockbroker, who settled in San Francisco in 
1865. Both parents left behind them enviable reputations as citizens, neigh- 
bors and friends. 

Born in San Francisco on June 1, 1875, Russell was educated at the 
William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, and at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and while yet a young man engaged in stock-raising in Wyoming, 
continuing in that strenuous field of activity for eight years. There, too, he 
got his first touch with public life, serving in the Seventh and Eighth Wyom- 
ing legislatures which opened their sessions in 1902 and 1904. Alert and 
watchful for the best interests of both his district and the state, Mr. Uhler 
soon made a wide and desirable reputation for unselfish service to his con- 
stituency. Disposing of his cattle interests in 1907, he took up his residence 
at Fresno, and for one and a half years engaged in the wholesale grain and 
seed business. 

On January 8, 1903, Mr. Uhler married Miss Emily Robinson ; and the 
result of this marriage has been the birth of two attractive children � Harry 
and Maurice. Active as a Woodman of the World, Mr. Uhler is equally 
popular in Commercial Club circles. A Democrat, and chairman of the Demo- 
cratic Central Committee since 1912, Mr. Uhler served for a couple of years 
as clerk of the court, and he is now completing, to everybody's satisfaction, 
his sixth year as county purchasing agent.