Butte County
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ALBERT ESTES
ALBERT ESTES.—An enterprising young man who is successfully engaged in grain-farming near Chico, is Albert Estes, born near Edmonton, Metcalf County, Ky., in 1882. He was the son of Hewlitt and Margaret A. (Harper) Estes, both natives of Kentucky, farmers in that commonwealth. The mother died in Kentucky about 1888, the family continuing their residence there until 1899, when the father, with the children, came to California, locating near Princeton, where he farmed for four years, after which he located on Nord Avenue, Chico, residing there until his death.
Educated in the public schools of Kentucky, Albert Estes was a youth of seventeen years when he came to California and was subsequently employed by C. G. Picknell at grain-farming, continuing with him and other ranchers until 1912. At this time he came to Chico and with T. W. Rodgers he leased the Shannon place of twenty-two hundred acres, which they farmed to grain for two years, then they farmed the Hewitt land for a like period and next operated twenty-one hundred acres of the C. F. Lott place for one year. In 1917 they dissolved their partnership arrangement and Mr. Estes leased the Wendell J. Miller place of eleven hundred thirty-five acres, where he is engaged in raising wheat and barley, having about nine hundred acres in grain each year. He uses five eight-mule-and-horse teams for putting in the crop and gathering it with a combined harvester. He also raises hogs.
Mr. Estes is liberal and enterprising, being willing at all times to do what he can towards improving the county and enhancing the conditions of its people.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1319, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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