California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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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


WILLIAM B. WAUGH. A young man of worth and ability, William B. Waugh is named 
among the successful stockmen in this section of Tulare county, where he is associated with 
his father, J. D. Waugh, an old settler and early pioneer, whose sketch also appears on another 
page of this work. A native of the state, William B. Waugh was born in Grass Valley, Cal., 
November 28, 1864, where he spent the first nine years of his life. In 1873 he accompanied 
his parents to Tulare county, and received his education in the public schools and the Visalia 
Normal. Following the precept and example of his father he began an independent life at the 
age of twenty years, renting his father's dairy and pasturing the cattle on the present site of 
Millwood, Fresno county, which land his father homesteaded. It was then known as Mill 
flat, and was later sold to Smith Comstock, and later to the Millwood Company, which dammed 
it up for Burning lumber. He now takes his cattle to the Roaring river, the head-waters of 
the Kings river, where he has a permit from the government. He took the first cattle into that 
section and built the first trail into the mountains. He is also engaged in general farming 
on the old home place of seven hundred and sixty acres in the Antelope valley, combining 
this with his stock-raising industry. His brand is an anchor on the left hip. He has made a 
success of his work and has won the esteem and respect of all who know him, both for his 
business ability as well as the integrity which has marked his entire life. 

In Visalia, December 12, 1886, Mr. Waugh was united in marriage with Fannie Kirkland, 
a native of San Francisco. Her father, W. P. Kirkland, was born in Mississippi, and in man- 
hood conducted a steamboat on the Mississippi river. He took his family first to Central Amer- 
ica, where he owned a cocoanut grove, and later brought them to San Francisco, where he en- 
gaged as a merchant. Removing to Visalia he filled many important public offices, among them 
that of county superintendent of schools and county auditor. He died in Visalia in Jan- 
uary, 1900, at the age of eighty-one years. His wife, Louise, died early in life. They were 
the parents of ten children, seven of whom are now living, namely : Mrs. Howard, of Goshen ; 
Alonzo, of Auckland; Mrs. Perzian, of Auckland ; Mrs. McClure, of San Francisco ; Walter, 
of Auckland; Mrs. Cason, of Visalia; and Mrs. Waugh, the youngest, who received her educa- 
tion in the schools of Visalia. To Mr. and Mrs. Waugh were born three children, namely: Har- 
ry, Earl and Lawrence. In his political affiliations Mr. Waugh is a stanch Democrat. 

Badger Hill tract is irrigated by three large wells, there being at the foot of the hill a pump- 
ing plant to carry the water to a reservoir of about two acres. From this reservoir, by means 
of a seventy-five horse-power electric motor, it is forced to the top of the hill, a distance of five 
hundred and eighty-six feet.