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


CURTIS T. FORREST. Numbered among the successful young ranchers of Merced county 
is Curtis T. Forrest, who is located three miles southeast of Le Grand and engaged in the culti- 
vation and improvement of two thousand acres of land. This property he has accumulated since 
coming to this location in 1903. Since that time devoting his attention to the raising of wheat, 
barley, cattle and hogs, his financial success is the result of painstaking and methodical effort 
and the ability to execute as well as plan. Born in Oakland, Cal., December 4, 1879, he is a son 
of Curtis T. and Flora J. (Stacker) Forrest, both pioneers of California. 

His father, Curtis T. Forrest, had four children, all of whom were born in Oakland: Curtis 
T. ; Flora, wife of Charles Anderson of San Francisco; Bessie S., and Newell. The father 
died in 1891, aged about sixty years. His widow survives him, and married J. W. Stevens of San 
Francisco. They now make their home in Oakland. 

Curtis T. Forrest was reared in his home in Oakland, and after receiving a preliminary edu- 
cation in the public schools of that city entered Stanford University, where he completed a 
course calculated to prove of material benefit in whatever line he should attempt for his life- 
work. He came to Merced county to look after his own and the property interests of the fam- 
ily, and has since been engaged in farming.