On October 2, 1892, Mr. Borger was married at Fresno to Miss Mary Bier, who came to Fresno in 1892. She is a native of Mr. Borger's birthplace in Russia, and the daughter of Philipp Bier, a farmer there. Mr. and Mrs. Borger have had four children: Katie, who is Mrs. McMahon of Fresno; Alexander, Jr., who is with the subject of our sketch; Mary, who died when she was only a year old; and Henry, the youngest. The family attend the German Lutheran Church.
WILLIAM HARRISON ENLOW.
A progressive young man, formerly manager of the Builders Lumber Company at Kerman, is William Harrison Enlow, a native son, born in Tulare County, sixteen miles from Visalia, in the Kaweah district. His father, Henry Harlan Enlow, was also a native son, born in the same county. His grandfather, John Kinney Enlow, was an Eastern man who crossed the plains as a pioneer to California, where he became a well-known farmer and stockman, and in which new land of promise he died. Growing up to man's estate, Henry Harlan Enlow farmed awhile in the vicinity of his home, and then he moved to Lemon Cove, where he was foreman of a ranch devoted to horticulture. He is now employed as foreman for the Merriam Fruit, Land and Lumber Company. Mrs. Enlow, William's mother, was Susan Hannah Snowden, before her marriage, and she was also born near Kaweah. She is the daughter of Hubbard Snowden, a native of Arkansas, who in early days crossed the prairies to California, and here, after having well performed his part, be died, in 1917, seventy-one years of age. Her own life of usefulness and joy to others, Mrs. Enlow is still living, surrounded by loving friends.
The eldest of eight children, William H. was brought up on a farm at Lemon Cove, and there attended the grammar school, later going to the high school at Visalia. At eighteen he took up the lumber business with the Naftsinger Lumber Company at Dillonwood, and thoroughly mastering every detail, he began at the bottom and worked for two years until he became a grader. Meanwhile he saved his money, and so was enabled to enter Heald's Business College from which he was graduated with honors in 1911.
For seven months Mr. Enlow was with the Fresno Home Packing Company as bookkeeper, and then he put in a year with the San Joaquin Light and Power Company at Fresno, where he was also bookkeeper: He next went into the retail lumber business with the Valley Lumber Company at Kingsburg, from February to October, 1912, and after that he went to Selma for the same company. In April, 1913, he was transferred to Fowler as yard foreman; and as such he was active until October, 1914. Then Mr. Prescott of the Valley Company secured him a place in the Kerman yard with the Builders Lumber Company. At first he was foreman, but in February, 1915, he was made manager of the yard where he remained until September, 1918.
While in Fowler, in 1914, Mr. Enlow was married to Miss Lena Isabelle Garretson, a native of Conejo, Fresno County, and who is a worthy helpmate. They have a daughter, Delores Linelle Enlow. Mr. Enlow is a member of the lumbermen's organization, the Hoo Hoos.
RICHARD BEVERLY CONDLEY.
A successful engineer widely experienced in the use of gas and steam engines and all kinds of pumps, who is highly esteemed as a citizen and neighbor, is Richard Beverly Condley, in charge of valuable properties for the Union Oil Company on the Clairmont, Ardell, Coalinga 8 and Security leases. He was born in Marshall, Saline County, Mo., on March 28, 1872, and came to California in the late nineties.
His father was David Mack Condley, a native of Arkansas who became a farmer in Saline County, Mo., moved to Napa, Cal., but returned to the Iron State, and finally died there at Marshall. His devoted wife, who was Martha Barnett before her marriage, had been born in Benton County and also died in .Missouri. Three girls and one boy were born of this union, and all are in California.
Richard, the oldest, was reared on a farm in Saline County and there educated at the public schools, remaining home until he was twenty-one. At Marshall, on March 28, 1893, he married Miss Ethel Hinton, a native of that place, and the daughter of David and Clara (Parks) Hinton, born respectively in Indiana and Pennsylvania. She came in her youth to Missouri with her parents and there married. Her father was a machinist and a stationary engineer, and was engaged in threshing, shelling corn, and manufacturing lumber for which work he ran a saw mill at Miami, on the Missouri River. Both father and mother are living at Marshall. Six children grew up, and two are in California; and Mrs. Condley is the second oldest of these.
From 1893 until 1897 Mr. Condley engaged in farming in Saline County, Mo., and then he came west to Hanford, Cal., where he entered the employ for a short time of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Then he put in four years with the winery of George West & Sons, at Hanford, and after that he removed to Bakersfield and took up work as a machinist helper for the Associated Oil Company in the Kern River Field. Continuing there, he also worked as a gas and steam engineer and a practical pump man, but after seven years, he resigned.
When the Lake View gusher No. 1 was struck, he went to Maricopa as a machinist for the Union Oil, and for several years he had charge of their machinery. In 1912 he was transferred in the same capacity to the Coalinga field, and here he has been ever since.
Four children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Condley — each of whom has thus far done some good work to honor the family name: Charles is also with the Union Oil, assisting his father, and is married to Eva Urnburn; Lucy, now Mrs. G. C. Work, lives at Oilfields, and has one child, Robert Beverly; and Edna and David are in the Coalinga Union High School. Mr. Condley belongs to the Woodmen of the World at Bakersfield.
WILLIAM NELSON FULLER.
Identified with the development of Fresno County as one of the real upbuilders of the Arizona Colony is William Nelson Fuller. He was born in Detroit, Mich., on November 27, 1855, the son of John Fuller, a native of London, Ont., Can., and one of the successful representatives of a line of energetic forebears who came from England to New York State and then migrated to Canada.
John Fuller removed to Detroit, where he remained a few years and then located on a farm near Lexington, Sanilac County. Mich., and there foil,, wed farming until his death, at Criswell, in the same county. The mother, Jane Wilson before her marriage, was also born in London, Ont., but of Scotch descent; and she, too, died at Criswell, leaving five boys and a girl, among whom our subject is the oldest son and the only one in California.
William Nelson was reared in Sanilac County on a farm, and educated at the public schools. When sixteen, he left home and worked on farms in different parts of Southern Michigan. He saved his money and entered the high school at Grand Rapids from which he was graduated; and then he learned the trades of a carpenter and a plasterer. After completing his apprenticeships, he came West to Minneapolis, and there he worked as a journeyman, laboring also in St. Paul. Two years later he removed to Fargo. N. D., working as a carpenter, and then he went to Bismarck, where he set up as a contractor and builder. He was in Bismarck when it was the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and was also there when the capitol was moved from Pierre to Bismarck.
In 1887, when the development of California realty interests was at its height, he came to Los Angeles and engaged in farming and horticulture, which he continued for five years; he then came north to Fresno County, where he homesteaded 160 acres near Raymond in what is now Madera County. He made numerous improvements, erecting buildings and in five years he sold the property at an advantage; and then he came to his present place. This was in 1897, and Mr. Fuller was one of the first settlers in the Montpellier Colony.
He began with fifteen acres of raw land — mere hog wallow — on Thorn Avenue, bought a water right, constructed a ditch, and brought the water on to the place; he then began raising strawberries for the Fresno market. He had ten acres of berries, and with a Mr. Markley was a pioneer strawberry grower in this section. Later he bought ten acres more of land. After some years, he quit raising strawberries and set out the whole twenty-five acres in a peach orchard,