LEWIS C. FERGUSON
Grounds Superintendent of the Palo Alto Ranch-
Bio-Pen Pictures
SURNAMES: ANDERSON,
Lewis C. Ferguson,
who has an important part in the management of the Palo Alto Ranch, is a member
of one of the old families of Santa Clara County. He was born at Volcano City,
in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, October 19, 1852, his parents being Asa and
Parthenia S. (Anderson) Ferguson. Lewis C. was reared to the age of eight years
at the family home, near Old Gilroy, and there commenced his schooling,
finishing his collegiate course at Oakland. He engaged with a Front Street firm
in San Francisco as entry clerk, and was for some time associated in that
capacity with wholesale houses on that and California Streets. He became
connected with the Manhattan Life Insurance Company and general mining offices
on Montgomery Street, and remained with them until 1885, when he came to the
Palo Alto Ranch. Besides the details of the business transactions, he has
immediate superintendence of the grounds. In politics he is a Republican, and
for a number of years was identified strongly with political clubs in San
Francisco.
Pen Pictures From The
Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated.
- Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888.
Pg. 328
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy
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