Tulare County Biographies

MARTIN WIRHT

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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In that wonderful European republic, Switzerland, Martin Wirht, who now lives a 
mile and a quarter northwest of Exeter, Tulare county. Cal., was born in 1857. 
When he was eleven years old he came to the United States and made his way to 
Springfield, Ill., where he lived a year, and from that time until 1879 his home 
was in Missouri. He went from Missouri to Kansas, from Kansas to Wyoming, and 
then back to Kansas, and in 1896 from Kansas to California, living six years in 
Wyoming and six years in Kansas.
In Tulare county Mr. Wirht's first place of residence was Porterville, from 
which town he moved to his present home near Exeter, where he has fifteen acres 
bearing oranges, five acres under grape�vines and twenty-five acres on which he 
grows vines and trees. His navel oranges are of fine variety and are usually 
among the earliest in his vicinity to reach the market. When he took the ranch 
in hand it was raw and without improvements, but he has provided it with a house 
and other buildings and developed it into one of the best homesteads in the 
Exeter district.
The marriage of Martin Wirht and Eliza Meredith, a native of Missouri, has 
resulted in the birth of five children, all of whom were educated or are being 
educated in Tulare county. Their oldest daughter is married. The parents of both 
Mr. and Mrs. Wirht have passed away. Mr. Wirht is regarded as a self-made man 
who richly deserves the success that he has won. He has always been too busy to 
take up political work and is not ambitious for office, but he is 
public-spiritedly helpful to all worthy interests of the community.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 834-835