EDWARD A. DAVID.-From his earliest recollections he has been familiar with farming. The clearest recollections of childhood are those associated with the then frontier of Missouri, where he helped to till the soil and harvest the crops, doing a man's part in the field while lie was yet a mere boy.
The family was poor and the struggle for a livelihood keen. Switzerland was his native county in Indiana, being born near Allensville, September 25, 1857. He was the son of William Atwell and Prudence Ray; David. In 1859, when the son was two years old, the parents removed to Holt county, Mo., where the father died during the same year. The death of the mother occurred in Kirksville, Mo. While his mother sent him to the county schools as much as possible, he was so greatly needed at home that his educational advantages were meager and his present broad fund of information results from habits of careful reading rather than from attendance at school. When he was fourteen years of age his mother died and he went to work on farms in Missouri, continuing this until he came to the Pacific coast.
Upon arriving in California March 19, 1887, Mr. David was without means for the purchase of land, but it was possible for him to take up a government claim and he therefore located one hundred acres in the Rio Bravo country. For eleven years he lived on the homestead, meanwhile filing his claim, proving up on the land and acquiring a clear title to the property.
As he was entirely without capital for the working of the land he engaged with neighboring farmers and the wages thus earned helped him with the development of his own properly. Then, as now, it was no easy task to improve a farm when without funds and he was handicapped constantly by this lack, but finally he emerged from the most discouraging of his troubles and entered upon a greater agricultural independence. With his removal to and leasing of forty acres twelve miles west of Bakersfield in the Rosedale colony he found conditions more favorable and in 1899 he bought the nucleus cf the tract which now forms his homestead. This he added to at different times until he now owns one hundred acres in a body under the Colloway canal. This he checked and leveled and sowed to alfalfa and it is now well improved with suitable buildings.
In Taberville, St. Clair County, Mo., September 23, 1877, occurred the marriage of Mr. David to Miss Catherine A. Baker, who was born in Clinton, Henry county, Mo., the daughter of Stephen P. and Catherine Baker, early settlers of Missouri.
Of their union have been born eight children: Katie, Mrs. Spurlin of this vicinity; Daniel, who assists on the farm; John, of Los Angeles ; Vernie, of Panama, this county ; Maude, Mrs. Krause, of Rosedale ; Artie, at home; Eddie, who died in 1912, at the age of fourteen years; and Lloyd, also at home. Mr. David now ranks among the oldest residents of this part of the county. He has always been interested in the cause of education, and has served on the board of trustees in the Rio Bravo district, and assisted in building the first school house.
Source: HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY Page 1467
by Wallace M. Morgan - Pub. 1914 (Public Domain)
The family was poor and the struggle for a livelihood keen. Switzerland was his native county in Indiana, being born near Allensville, September 25, 1857. He was the son of William Atwell and Prudence Ray; David. In 1859, when the son was two years old, the parents removed to Holt county, Mo., where the father died during the same year. The death of the mother occurred in Kirksville, Mo. While his mother sent him to the county schools as much as possible, he was so greatly needed at home that his educational advantages were meager and his present broad fund of information results from habits of careful reading rather than from attendance at school. When he was fourteen years of age his mother died and he went to work on farms in Missouri, continuing this until he came to the Pacific coast.
Upon arriving in California March 19, 1887, Mr. David was without means for the purchase of land, but it was possible for him to take up a government claim and he therefore located one hundred acres in the Rio Bravo country. For eleven years he lived on the homestead, meanwhile filing his claim, proving up on the land and acquiring a clear title to the property.
As he was entirely without capital for the working of the land he engaged with neighboring farmers and the wages thus earned helped him with the development of his own properly. Then, as now, it was no easy task to improve a farm when without funds and he was handicapped constantly by this lack, but finally he emerged from the most discouraging of his troubles and entered upon a greater agricultural independence. With his removal to and leasing of forty acres twelve miles west of Bakersfield in the Rosedale colony he found conditions more favorable and in 1899 he bought the nucleus cf the tract which now forms his homestead. This he added to at different times until he now owns one hundred acres in a body under the Colloway canal. This he checked and leveled and sowed to alfalfa and it is now well improved with suitable buildings.
In Taberville, St. Clair County, Mo., September 23, 1877, occurred the marriage of Mr. David to Miss Catherine A. Baker, who was born in Clinton, Henry county, Mo., the daughter of Stephen P. and Catherine Baker, early settlers of Missouri.
Of their union have been born eight children: Katie, Mrs. Spurlin of this vicinity; Daniel, who assists on the farm; John, of Los Angeles ; Vernie, of Panama, this county ; Maude, Mrs. Krause, of Rosedale ; Artie, at home; Eddie, who died in 1912, at the age of fourteen years; and Lloyd, also at home. Mr. David now ranks among the oldest residents of this part of the county. He has always been interested in the cause of education, and has served on the board of trustees in the Rio Bravo district, and assisted in building the first school house.
Source: HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY Page 1467
by Wallace M. Morgan - Pub. 1914 (Public Domain)
EDWARD A. DAVID.-From his earliest recollections he has been familiar with farming. The clearest recollections of childhood are those associated with the then frontier of Missouri, where he helped to till the soil and harvest the crops, doing a man's part in the field while lie was yet a mere boy.
The family was poor and the struggle for a livelihood keen. Switzerland was his native county in Indiana, being born near Allensville, September 25, 1857. He was the son of William Atwell and Prudence Ray; David. In 1859, when the son was two years old, the parents removed to Holt county, Mo., where the father died during the same year. The death of the mother occurred in Kirksville, Mo. While his mother sent him to the county schools as much as possible, he was so greatly needed at home that his educational advantages were meager and his present broad fund of information results from habits of careful reading rather than from attendance at school. When he was fourteen years of age his mother died and he went to work on farms in Missouri, continuing this until he came to the Pacific coast.
Upon arriving in California March 19, 1887, Mr. David was without means for the purchase of land, but it was possible for him to take up a government claim and he therefore located one hundred acres in the Rio Bravo country. For eleven years he lived on the homestead, meanwhile filing his claim, proving up on the land and acquiring a clear title to the property.
As he was entirely without capital for the working of the land he engaged with neighboring farmers and the wages thus earned helped him with the development of his own properly. Then, as now, it was no easy task to improve a farm when without funds and he was handicapped constantly by this lack, but finally he emerged from the most discouraging of his troubles and entered upon a greater agricultural independence. With his removal to and leasing of forty acres twelve miles west of Bakersfield in the Rosedale colony he found conditions more favorable and in 1899 he bought the nucleus cf the tract which now forms his homestead. This he added to at different times until he now owns one hundred acres in a body under the Colloway canal. This he checked and leveled and sowed to alfalfa and it is now well improved with suitable buildings.
In Taberville, St. Clair County, Mo., September 23, 1877, occurred the marriage of Mr. David to Miss Catherine A. Baker, who was born in Clinton, Henry county, Mo., the daughter of Stephen P. and Catherine Baker, early settlers of Missouri.
Of their union have been born eight children: Katie, Mrs. Spurlin of this vicinity; Daniel, who assists on the farm; John, of Los Angeles ; Vernie, of Panama, this county ; Maude, Mrs. Krause, of Rosedale ; Artie, at home; Eddie, who died in 1912, at the age of fourteen years; and Lloyd, also at home. Mr. David now ranks among the oldest residents of this part of the county. He has always been interested in the cause of education, and has served on the board of trustees in the Rio Bravo district, and assisted in building the first school house.
Source: HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY Page 1467
by Wallace M. Morgan - Pub. 1914 (Public Domain)
The family was poor and the struggle for a livelihood keen. Switzerland was his native county in Indiana, being born near Allensville, September 25, 1857. He was the son of William Atwell and Prudence Ray; David. In 1859, when the son was two years old, the parents removed to Holt county, Mo., where the father died during the same year. The death of the mother occurred in Kirksville, Mo. While his mother sent him to the county schools as much as possible, he was so greatly needed at home that his educational advantages were meager and his present broad fund of information results from habits of careful reading rather than from attendance at school. When he was fourteen years of age his mother died and he went to work on farms in Missouri, continuing this until he came to the Pacific coast.
Upon arriving in California March 19, 1887, Mr. David was without means for the purchase of land, but it was possible for him to take up a government claim and he therefore located one hundred acres in the Rio Bravo country. For eleven years he lived on the homestead, meanwhile filing his claim, proving up on the land and acquiring a clear title to the property.
As he was entirely without capital for the working of the land he engaged with neighboring farmers and the wages thus earned helped him with the development of his own properly. Then, as now, it was no easy task to improve a farm when without funds and he was handicapped constantly by this lack, but finally he emerged from the most discouraging of his troubles and entered upon a greater agricultural independence. With his removal to and leasing of forty acres twelve miles west of Bakersfield in the Rosedale colony he found conditions more favorable and in 1899 he bought the nucleus cf the tract which now forms his homestead. This he added to at different times until he now owns one hundred acres in a body under the Colloway canal. This he checked and leveled and sowed to alfalfa and it is now well improved with suitable buildings.
In Taberville, St. Clair County, Mo., September 23, 1877, occurred the marriage of Mr. David to Miss Catherine A. Baker, who was born in Clinton, Henry county, Mo., the daughter of Stephen P. and Catherine Baker, early settlers of Missouri.
Of their union have been born eight children: Katie, Mrs. Spurlin of this vicinity; Daniel, who assists on the farm; John, of Los Angeles ; Vernie, of Panama, this county ; Maude, Mrs. Krause, of Rosedale ; Artie, at home; Eddie, who died in 1912, at the age of fourteen years; and Lloyd, also at home. Mr. David now ranks among the oldest residents of this part of the county. He has always been interested in the cause of education, and has served on the board of trustees in the Rio Bravo district, and assisted in building the first school house.
Source: HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY Page 1467
by Wallace M. Morgan - Pub. 1914 (Public Domain)
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