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


ROBERT W. FIX. A prominent citizen of Merced county is Robert W. Fix, a successful ranchman 
located on two hundred and forty acres about one mile from Plainsberg, and engaged in 
the raising of grain, for which purpose he also rents six hundred and forty acres. He has been 
located in the San Joaquin valley since 1876 and has met with a success which has numbered him 
among the representative men of the county. Born in Bartholomew county, Ind., February 3, 
1840, he is a son of William' Fix. 

William Fix was a native of Wheeling, W. Va., and of German ancestry. In manhood he 
married Margaret Monroe, a native of Kentucky and of Scotch ancestry. He went to Indiana 
when a young man and engaged in farming pursuits, where he remained until about 1851, when 
he located in Davis county, Iowa. Seven years were passed in that location when they removed 
to Macon county, Mo., where he farmed for seventeen years. His last move was to the state of 
Texas, where he died at the age of eighty-six years. His wife died in 1903, also eighty-six years old. 

Robert W. Fix was reared in the states of Iowa and Missouri and received his education through 
the medium of the public schools. In Missouri he married Frances Vickers, a native of Kentucky, 
and in 1872 they removed to Texas, where he farmed for four years. On account of his wife's 
health he sold his farm in Texas and came to California, and in Merced county he worked as a 
ranch hand for seven years. He then rented a section of land and raised grain for a number 
of years. In 1.897 ne purchased his present ranch of two hundred and forty acres and has since 
made this property his home, giving his most earnest efforts toward its improvement and de- 
velopment. Of the seven children born to himself and wife three are now living, namely : Effie, 
wife of Robert Burchell; Cecil, wife of E. T. Russell of Lodi, this state; and Ora. Mr. Fix is a Republican 
politically, and in the interests of his party has served as school trustee. He is a prominent member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.