California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


ALMOND B. CLEMENT. The extensive farming interests of Almond B. Clement justly place 
him among the representative men of that class in this section of Tulare county. He is now 
engaged in the cultivation and improvement of nine hundred and sixty acres in the vicinity 
of Springville, where he carries on principally the raising of stock and hay. A native of Barry 
county, Mich., he was born July 23, 1856, a son of Isaac Clement. The elder man was a native 
of New York state, who located in Barry county, Mich., in 1870, and engaged as a pioneer farm- 
er. Later he removed to Floyd county, Iowa, and followed the same occupation in that local- 
ity : then, in 1873. settled near Lincoln, Neb., from there removing to Ada county, Idaho, in 
1881, where he engaged in fruit growing and general farming. Three years later he came to 
California and located near Springville, Tulare county, and later near Globe, and in 1902 sold 
out and now resides with his daughter in the vicinity of Springville at the age of seventy-four 
years. His wife, formerly Savilla M. Clark, was born in New York state and died in California, 
leaving a family of three sons and three daughters. One son and two daughters were by a 
former marriage. 

The eldest in his father's family, Almond B. Clement was reared in the various localities 
where his parents lived, receiving his education in the public schools of Michigan, Iowa and 
Nebraska. He began farming in Nebraska but removed with his father to Idaho and also came 
to California with him in 1884. He located upon the place where he now lives, owning nine hun- 
dred and sixty acres, of which he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres. His property is 
three miles north of Springville in the mountains, and is principally devoted to stock-raising. 
In Idaho he married Sarah A. Wittel, a native of Shelby county, Ohio, and the daughter of 
John Wittel, of Pennsylvania, who came to Idaho in 1884 and to California ten years later, lo- 
cating near Chico, Butte county, where he is now engaged in farming and fruit-raising. Mr. and 
Mrs. Clement have two children, Elzie F. and Alpha M., both at home. Politically Mr. Clement is 
a Democrat, and in the interests of this party has served in various offices, at present filling that 
of clerk of the school board of the Mountain View district