. History of Sacramento County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present; . ommodious quarters, where he has the most up-to-date plant of itskind in the city, making and selling on an average four hundred andfifty gallons of ice cream daily. In October, 1911, Mr. Griffeth began the manufacture of creamerybutter. In order to excel in this branch of his enterprise he took aspecial course in butter-making at the California state dairy farm atDavisville, which includ
. History of Sacramento County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present; . ommodious quarters, where he has the most up-to-date plant of itskind in the city, making and selling on an average four hundred andfifty gallons of ice cream daily. In October, 1911, Mr. Griffeth began the manufacture of creamerybutter. In order to excel in this branch of his enterprise he took aspecial course in butter-making at the California state dairy farm atDavisville, which included special instruction in the handling ofcream. He is now contemplating the enlargement of his place of busi-ness and the introduction of very material improvements, in order tomeet the steadily increasing demand for his ice cream and he gives the greater part of his time to the manufacturingbusiness, he is also interested in his fathers grocery business. September 17, 1905, Mr. Griffeth married Miss Mabel Ljman ofSacramento. He is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden a business man he is ])ublic-spirited and progressive, having atheart the best interests of the ^ji:{;^ HISTORY OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY 667 JOHN F. BEDWELL In Poinsett county, Ark., at Crowley Ridge, Jolin F. Bedwell wasborn March 14, 1868. His father, Samuel K., a man of good abilitiesand a millwright by trade, built the first flour mill at Memphis, Tenn.,and other pioneer mills of different kinds in that vicinity. In 1871the family moved to Fulton county. Ark., where the mechanic turnedfarmer and lived until April, 1908, when he died. His wife, formerlyEveline Lampkins of Tennessee, bore him six children, of whom oursubject was the youngest. When John F. Bedwell was eleven years of age he left home topaddle his own canoe, going to Newport, Ark., where he worked on afarm two years. Then, at the age of thirteen, in 1881, he came to thePacific coast and located in Los Ang
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