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


J. E. FENLEY. As a farmer and stockman. J. E. Fenley occupies a place among the repre- 
sentative men of Tulare county, where he has been located since 1888. A native of Missouri, 
he was born in Callaway county November 9, 1866, his father. T. H. Fenley, also being a native 
of the same locality. The elder man was a farmer and stockman in Missouri until he came 
to California, locating near Winters, Yolo county, where he is now retired at the age of 
eighty years. His wife, formerly Carrie Jane Baker, was born in Missouri and died in Cali- 
fornia. Of the eleven children born of this union eight attained maturity and seven are now 
living. 

The ninth in the family of his parents, J. K. Fenley was reared to young manhood on the pa- 
ternal farm in Missouri, receiving his education at the district school in the vicinity of his home. 
He remained at home until 1884, in which year he came to California and located at Winters, 
Yolo county, where a brother had previously settled. He found employment on a farm during 
the summer months, following which he engaged as a clerk in the town of Winters for a period 
of three years. In 1888 he came to Tulare county and located on the plains, where he has since 
improved and cultivated a farm of six hundred and forty acres on section 22, township 17, range 
25. He has devoted his time and attention principally to the raising of grain and stock, while 
he also raises some alfalfa. He has a pumping plant on his property, equipped with a five-inch 
pump, a thousand gallons an hour being supplied for irrigation purposes. He has erected 
ample and substantial buildings for all purposes, among them a handsome and comfortable resi- 
dence. 

In Tulare county Mr. Fenley was united in marriage with Etta Calcote, a native of the 
county, and a daughter of Allen Calcote and sister of William Calcote, whose sketch appears 
upon another page of this volume. They are now the parents of two children, Arlie and Carl. 
In his political affiliations a Democrat, Mr. Fenley has been and is one of the stanch supporters 
of these principles in this section. In the interests of educational lines, he has served as school 
trustee for three years.