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


CLEMENT D. OLDERSHAW. The ranch of C. D. Oldershaw, located in the Greenfield 
district, ten miles south of Bakersfield, Kern county, is numbered among the model farms 
of this section of country, the improvements and cultivation which have made it so being 
entirely the result of the efforts of its enterprising owner. When he purchased the prop- 
erty in 1898 there were no improvements of any kind, and though thirty acres were under 
the plow he has set out the fruit which since that time has brought him so large an income. 
Besides small fruits he is interested in bee culture, having an apiary of two hundred colo- 
nies, and in his various lines has met with a success which rarely fails to attend concen- 
trated effort. 

In London, England, Mr. Oldershaw was born October 24, 1864, and in his native city 
and the vicinity was reared and educated. His father, Francis P. Oldershaw, an accountant 
by occupation, was also a native of London, and in that location his death occurred in 1870. 
Until he was twenty years old Mr. Oldershaw remained at home, when he decided to emi- 
grate, and taking passage for America he landed in New York City March 22, 1885. Coming 
direct to California he took up a homestead in Antelope valley, Los Angeles county, where 
he engaged in farming for some time. Disposing of that property he came to Kern county 
in 1898, and as before mentioned purchased the ranch upon which he has since made his home. 
Eight acres of his ranch are devoted to small fruits, and the remaining twenty-two acres 
are devoted to general farming. His ranch is entirely level, and being located on the 
Kern Island canal he can irrigate every foot of the land. 

In 1898 Mr. Oldershaw married Miss Anna Long, a native of Ireland, and they are the par- 
ents of the following children : Minna, Basil and Percy. In national politics a Democrat 
Mr. Oldershaw reserves the right to cast his ballot for that man whom he knows to be best 
equipped for official service in all local affairs. Fraternally he is identified with the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World.