Owner operator of Cressman's General Store for many many years in Pine Ridge, Fresno County, California. His store was built on the location of an earlier bar that was a main stopping point for teamsters and loggers coming down from the mountains.
From a 1919 biography
A. N. CRESSMAN A prominent man in the Pine Ridge district and a resident of Fresno County since November 20, 1888, A. N. Cressman was born near Tylersport, Pa., June 5, 1868. His father, George Cressman, was born at Souderton, Pa., where he was a farmer and is descended from an old Pennsylvania family. The mother of A. N. Cressman was, in maidenhood, Mary Ann Wesner, also born in Pennsylvania, and A. N. is the second oldest of their nine children and the only member of the family in the west.
He was reared in Montgomery County, Pa., receiving a good education in the public schools of that county. When nineteen years of age he came west arriving in Weeping Water, Nebr., in the spring of 1888, remaining until fall when he came to Fresno County. He went to work for Bill Forsyth in the Fresno vineyard at fifty cents per day and three months later he was made foreman of the vineyard, a position he held for about a year when he resigned to work for G. W. Smith in Eggers Colony from the fall of '89 until the spring of 1890, and then came to Ockenden, being employed by Burnham & Eversole, butchers.
After two summers with them he went to Porterville and was married there December 24, 1892, to Miss Nellie Hall, who was born in Nebraska, a daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Sweeney) Hall, natives of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, respectively, who moved to Nebraska and in 1891 to Porterville, Cal. Her father died in Oklahoma and her mother now lives in Selma.
After his marriage Mr. Cressman came back to Ockenden and was employed by Thomas Bacon and ran his butcher business and was later with his successors, Bacon & Simpson until they sold to Tom Ockenden and continued to run his business until 1908. Meantime in 1905 he had purchased his present place of 160 acres, the old Tom Downey place above the Tollhouse. Here he set out an apple orchard and built a residence and store and in 1907 started a store, saloon and hotel.
He still runs the mercantile business and hotel and his apple orchard is in full-bearing. These he packs in boxes and hauls to Fresno with his truck. He has as many as 3,000 boxes of winter apples which not only are sold in different cities in Fresno County, but he ships them, same going east as far as Kentucky and Virginia and west to Honolulu. He has made displays of apples in the Fresno County Fair and has taken his share of the prizes.
The result of the union of A. N. Cressman and Nellie Hall has been ten children: Robert A., with the San Joaquin Light and Power Company; Mary E., Mrs. Chambers, who resides with her husband on the Cressman ranch; Bertha and Linda H., twins, who, both live in Fresno; Lizzie H., Alice H., George, Benj. H., Annie, and Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Cressman have an interesting family to whom they are giving the best educational advantages within their means and they have the regard and well wishes of a host of friends who admire them for their integrity and honesty of purpose. Deeply interested in the cause of education, Mr. Cressman is a trustee of the Pine Ridge School District, having served many years as clerk of the board. He gave one acre of the present site for the school house. He is a member of the Herman Sons and the Eagles. In political preferment he is always a true blue Republican.
From a 1919 biography
A. N. CRESSMAN A prominent man in the Pine Ridge district and a resident of Fresno County since November 20, 1888, A. N. Cressman was born near Tylersport, Pa., June 5, 1868. His father, George Cressman, was born at Souderton, Pa., where he was a farmer and is descended from an old Pennsylvania family. The mother of A. N. Cressman was, in maidenhood, Mary Ann Wesner, also born in Pennsylvania, and A. N. is the second oldest of their nine children and the only member of the family in the west.
He was reared in Montgomery County, Pa., receiving a good education in the public schools of that county. When nineteen years of age he came west arriving in Weeping Water, Nebr., in the spring of 1888, remaining until fall when he came to Fresno County. He went to work for Bill Forsyth in the Fresno vineyard at fifty cents per day and three months later he was made foreman of the vineyard, a position he held for about a year when he resigned to work for G. W. Smith in Eggers Colony from the fall of '89 until the spring of 1890, and then came to Ockenden, being employed by Burnham & Eversole, butchers.
After two summers with them he went to Porterville and was married there December 24, 1892, to Miss Nellie Hall, who was born in Nebraska, a daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Sweeney) Hall, natives of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, respectively, who moved to Nebraska and in 1891 to Porterville, Cal. Her father died in Oklahoma and her mother now lives in Selma.
After his marriage Mr. Cressman came back to Ockenden and was employed by Thomas Bacon and ran his butcher business and was later with his successors, Bacon & Simpson until they sold to Tom Ockenden and continued to run his business until 1908. Meantime in 1905 he had purchased his present place of 160 acres, the old Tom Downey place above the Tollhouse. Here he set out an apple orchard and built a residence and store and in 1907 started a store, saloon and hotel.
He still runs the mercantile business and hotel and his apple orchard is in full-bearing. These he packs in boxes and hauls to Fresno with his truck. He has as many as 3,000 boxes of winter apples which not only are sold in different cities in Fresno County, but he ships them, same going east as far as Kentucky and Virginia and west to Honolulu. He has made displays of apples in the Fresno County Fair and has taken his share of the prizes.
The result of the union of A. N. Cressman and Nellie Hall has been ten children: Robert A., with the San Joaquin Light and Power Company; Mary E., Mrs. Chambers, who resides with her husband on the Cressman ranch; Bertha and Linda H., twins, who, both live in Fresno; Lizzie H., Alice H., George, Benj. H., Annie, and Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Cressman have an interesting family to whom they are giving the best educational advantages within their means and they have the regard and well wishes of a host of friends who admire them for their integrity and honesty of purpose. Deeply interested in the cause of education, Mr. Cressman is a trustee of the Pine Ridge School District, having served many years as clerk of the board. He gave one acre of the present site for the school house. He is a member of the Herman Sons and the Eagles. In political preferment he is always a true blue Republican.
Owner operator of Cressman's General Store for many many years in Pine Ridge, Fresno County, California. His store was built on the location of an earlier bar that was a main stopping point for teamsters and loggers coming down from the mountains.
From a 1919 biography
A. N. CRESSMAN A prominent man in the Pine Ridge district and a resident of Fresno County since November 20, 1888, A. N. Cressman was born near Tylersport, Pa., June 5, 1868. His father, George Cressman, was born at Souderton, Pa., where he was a farmer and is descended from an old Pennsylvania family. The mother of A. N. Cressman was, in maidenhood, Mary Ann Wesner, also born in Pennsylvania, and A. N. is the second oldest of their nine children and the only member of the family in the west.
He was reared in Montgomery County, Pa., receiving a good education in the public schools of that county. When nineteen years of age he came west arriving in Weeping Water, Nebr., in the spring of 1888, remaining until fall when he came to Fresno County. He went to work for Bill Forsyth in the Fresno vineyard at fifty cents per day and three months later he was made foreman of the vineyard, a position he held for about a year when he resigned to work for G. W. Smith in Eggers Colony from the fall of '89 until the spring of 1890, and then came to Ockenden, being employed by Burnham & Eversole, butchers.
After two summers with them he went to Porterville and was married there December 24, 1892, to Miss Nellie Hall, who was born in Nebraska, a daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Sweeney) Hall, natives of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, respectively, who moved to Nebraska and in 1891 to Porterville, Cal. Her father died in Oklahoma and her mother now lives in Selma.
After his marriage Mr. Cressman came back to Ockenden and was employed by Thomas Bacon and ran his butcher business and was later with his successors, Bacon & Simpson until they sold to Tom Ockenden and continued to run his business until 1908. Meantime in 1905 he had purchased his present place of 160 acres, the old Tom Downey place above the Tollhouse. Here he set out an apple orchard and built a residence and store and in 1907 started a store, saloon and hotel.
He still runs the mercantile business and hotel and his apple orchard is in full-bearing. These he packs in boxes and hauls to Fresno with his truck. He has as many as 3,000 boxes of winter apples which not only are sold in different cities in Fresno County, but he ships them, same going east as far as Kentucky and Virginia and west to Honolulu. He has made displays of apples in the Fresno County Fair and has taken his share of the prizes.
The result of the union of A. N. Cressman and Nellie Hall has been ten children: Robert A., with the San Joaquin Light and Power Company; Mary E., Mrs. Chambers, who resides with her husband on the Cressman ranch; Bertha and Linda H., twins, who, both live in Fresno; Lizzie H., Alice H., George, Benj. H., Annie, and Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Cressman have an interesting family to whom they are giving the best educational advantages within their means and they have the regard and well wishes of a host of friends who admire them for their integrity and honesty of purpose. Deeply interested in the cause of education, Mr. Cressman is a trustee of the Pine Ridge School District, having served many years as clerk of the board. He gave one acre of the present site for the school house. He is a member of the Herman Sons and the Eagles. In political preferment he is always a true blue Republican.
From a 1919 biography
A. N. CRESSMAN A prominent man in the Pine Ridge district and a resident of Fresno County since November 20, 1888, A. N. Cressman was born near Tylersport, Pa., June 5, 1868. His father, George Cressman, was born at Souderton, Pa., where he was a farmer and is descended from an old Pennsylvania family. The mother of A. N. Cressman was, in maidenhood, Mary Ann Wesner, also born in Pennsylvania, and A. N. is the second oldest of their nine children and the only member of the family in the west.
He was reared in Montgomery County, Pa., receiving a good education in the public schools of that county. When nineteen years of age he came west arriving in Weeping Water, Nebr., in the spring of 1888, remaining until fall when he came to Fresno County. He went to work for Bill Forsyth in the Fresno vineyard at fifty cents per day and three months later he was made foreman of the vineyard, a position he held for about a year when he resigned to work for G. W. Smith in Eggers Colony from the fall of '89 until the spring of 1890, and then came to Ockenden, being employed by Burnham & Eversole, butchers.
After two summers with them he went to Porterville and was married there December 24, 1892, to Miss Nellie Hall, who was born in Nebraska, a daughter of Robert and Eleanor (Sweeney) Hall, natives of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, respectively, who moved to Nebraska and in 1891 to Porterville, Cal. Her father died in Oklahoma and her mother now lives in Selma.
After his marriage Mr. Cressman came back to Ockenden and was employed by Thomas Bacon and ran his butcher business and was later with his successors, Bacon & Simpson until they sold to Tom Ockenden and continued to run his business until 1908. Meantime in 1905 he had purchased his present place of 160 acres, the old Tom Downey place above the Tollhouse. Here he set out an apple orchard and built a residence and store and in 1907 started a store, saloon and hotel.
He still runs the mercantile business and hotel and his apple orchard is in full-bearing. These he packs in boxes and hauls to Fresno with his truck. He has as many as 3,000 boxes of winter apples which not only are sold in different cities in Fresno County, but he ships them, same going east as far as Kentucky and Virginia and west to Honolulu. He has made displays of apples in the Fresno County Fair and has taken his share of the prizes.
The result of the union of A. N. Cressman and Nellie Hall has been ten children: Robert A., with the San Joaquin Light and Power Company; Mary E., Mrs. Chambers, who resides with her husband on the Cressman ranch; Bertha and Linda H., twins, who, both live in Fresno; Lizzie H., Alice H., George, Benj. H., Annie, and Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Cressman have an interesting family to whom they are giving the best educational advantages within their means and they have the regard and well wishes of a host of friends who admire them for their integrity and honesty of purpose. Deeply interested in the cause of education, Mr. Cressman is a trustee of the Pine Ridge School District, having served many years as clerk of the board. He gave one acre of the present site for the school house. He is a member of the Herman Sons and the Eagles. In political preferment he is always a true blue Republican.
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