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


JOHN H. FIELD. Among the leading horticulturists of Madera county John H. Field is given a 
prominent position. He was born in Columbia, Mo., February 14, 1856, a son of John H. Field, 
Sr., a native of Richmond. Ky., who left the familiar scenes of his young manhood and located 
in Missouri, where he became prominent as a farmer and stockman and as a merchant in the 
town of Columbia. He died near Mexico at the age of fifty-seven years. He was connected with 
the Hardin family on the maternal side, an old family of Virginia. John H. Field, Sr., married 
Frances Provines, a native of Kentucky and a sister of Judge R. R. Provines, a pioneer of San 
Francisco. 

Educated in the common schools of Columbia, Mo., John H. Field later took a course in the state 
university and was graduated in 1877. Having received special training as a surveyor and civil 
engineer lie followed that line of work for fifteen years, five years in the government service on 
the Mississippi River Commission, and ten years in the employ of various railroads. During the 
time he surveyed on all the principal roads between the two mountain ranges, being located in 
Colorado after 1879. 

About 1895 Mr. Field decided to locate in California and upon going to Fresno county, he en- 
tered the employ of E. A. Eliott of Fresno, and in the interest of the latter served as superinten- 
dent of different ranches throughout that section. In 1904 he purchased forty acres on the Green 
section, one and one-half miles south of Madera, which he is preparing to put into fruit and alfalfa 
and making other improvements for a home place. By his marriage, Mr. Field was united 
with Ida Lee Price, a daughter of R. Price, and of this union two children, Marie and Price, have 
been born. In his political opinions, Mr. Field allies himself with the Democratic party.