Kings County Biographies


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N. WILSON
 
lessee and manager of the Hanford Cheese Factory, is a native of Lanark County, 
Ontario, Canada, born in 1867.  He followed agricultural pursuits until 1884, 
when he entered a cheese factory in his native county, and there became 
proficient in the business of cheese-making.  In the spring of 1889 he came to 
California.  Mr. Wilson first settled at Woodland, as manager of a factory 
there, and remained until November, 1890, when he went to Visalia and accepted a 
like position in the Visalia Creamery, a two-story building, 40 x 80 feet, well 
equipped with all the latest improved machinery.  Although still manager at 
Visalia, on March 1, 1891, he leased the Hanford Cheese Factory, a two-story 
frame building, 40 x 60 feet, with a basement cellar for summer storage.  He 
purchases milk from the farmers, used 4,500 pounds daily, and manufactures 450 
pounds of cheese from the same, which he makes into the commercial sizes of 
�Drum,� �Fancy Flats� and �Young America.�  Mr. Wilson finds a large sale for 
his product through the valley, and sends the over-stock to the San Francisco 
market.  To utilize the whey, he keeps about sixty hogs.  Mr. Wilson gives close 
and careful attention to the details of his business, and is promoting an 
important industry in the valley.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, 
California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892  p. 442
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler