GEORGE W. KING - A resident of Isabella, Kern county, Cal., George W. King was born in Bedford county, Tenn., April 25, 1853. He attended the public school near his home until he was nineteen years old, and then until he was twenty-one assisted his father in the latter's business. Meanwhile he learned telegraphy and during the next two years he was employed as a telegraph operator at Normandy. He gave up that employment to become a general merchant and as such he prospered eight years. After that until 1879 he was in the stock and lumber business.

In the year last mentioned Mr. King came to California and located in Hanford, Kings county, where for seven years he worked as a carpenter. Later he was otherwise employed and in 1894 he settled in Kern county, where for three years he devoted himself to mining. He was one of the fathers of the thriving town of Isabella and was for eight years its postmaster, being the first incumbent of that office. He built the first house in Isabella, also the first store buildings and put in the first stock of general merchandise. He is now the proprietor of a prosperous general store, and also owns a hundred and sixty-acre tract near Fairmont, in Los Angeles county. He owns the New Century and Colwell mines, which he opened up by tunnels and cross-cuts, thus opening a big ledge of twenty-three feet in the New Century, where he built a five-stamp quartz mill. The Century mine is big body low-grade ore, while the Colwell is high-grade free milling ore. Mr. King has forty acres of land on South Fork under irrigation, and he has acquired ten town lots and a residence.

On February 19, 1908, Mr. King married Miss Elizabeth Parker, who was born in Illinois in 1867 and was brought to California by her parents when she was six years old. One child, Elizabeth J., has been born to their union. The first marriage of Mr. King , which took place in Tennessee, was to Margaret J. Cully, who passed away there, leaving a child, Eustice L., now superintendent of S.W. & B. Oil Company, at Coalinga. Mr. King has been a leader in many things of public importance and his fellow townsmen have come to depend on him as a man of public spirit who will not fail them in any emergency.

Source: History of Kern County, California
Wallace M. Morgan
Published 1914 (Public Domain)
Thank you to Art Moore for contributing this info.
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Daughter:
Elizabeth Josephine (King) McCallum
b. August 10, 1911 in Kern County, CA
d. October 15, 1958 in Tehama County, CA
She was the wife of George D. McCallum