Tulare County
Biographies
EDWIN S. BOYD
Edwin S. Boyd, proprietor of the Boyd & Boyd dry cleaning establishment, located at No. 530 North Encina street, Visalia, California, was born in Dresden, Ohio. He attended the public schools, worked in a printing office and clerked in a drug store. Upon reaching manhood he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was employed for seven years as a traveling salesman by a house selling drugs and surgical instruments.
In 1905 Edwin S. Boyd came to California and was for a time in Long Beach, connected with the City Dye Works, where he gained a thorough knowledge of the dry cleaning business. On October 6, 1910, he opened the Boyd & Boyd dry cleaning works, which he still conducts, and in which he has been quite successful.
Mr. Boyd also owns a ranch of twenty acres in the Ivanhoe district of Tulare county. In 1920 he sunk wells for irrigating purposes and put out a vineyard of ten acres. This vineyard is in what is known as the frostless belt and when the vines were four years old he harvested sixty-two tons of grapes. On the third picking one vine yielded four and a fourth boxes of grapes, which netted him $7.00.
Mr. Boyd is a member of the Greene Fruit Packing Company and is an elder in the First Presbyterian church of Visalia. During his residence of fourteen years in the city he has shown himself to be public-spirited and always ready to further any project for the general welfare of the community.
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California – Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 102
Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama
CLARENCE LINN BRADLEY
Clarence L. Bradley, the junior member of the well known law firm of Bradley & Bradley, of Visalia, is a native of that city, a son of O. N. and Virginia (Bequette) Bradley. He was born on October 20, 1885, attended the local schools in his boyhood and in 1915 received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in electrical engineering from Leland Stanford University. For some years before his graduation he was engaged in electrical engineering work, dating from 1910, and has held the position of deputy county surveyor of Tulare county.
Mr. Bradley commenced the study of law in the office of Bradley & Bradley, a firm composed of his father and older brother, and was admitted to practice in 1915.
Mr. Bradley served in the army during the World war, leaving Visalia with Company D, Second California Infantry. He served in France with the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Fourth Division, in command of Company C, in the battles of St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne, was wounded in action and honorably discharged with the rank of first lieutenant.
Upon his return from France he became a member of the firm and since then has been actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. Among his clients are the Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank, the Japanese Association, the People’s Consolidated and Lower Extension ditch companies, and well as a number of other Visalia firms and corporations. Mr. Bradley is United States referee in bankruptcy for Tulare county.
Mr. Bradley is a member of the Tulare County Bar Association; the American Legion, in which he belongs to the Forty and Eight, the Kiwanis Club; the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks; and the Knights of Columbus.
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California – Kathleen Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 167
Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama