History of Fresno 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 . ed this business for sev-eral years. He also rented land and leveled it. and was a contractor forditching and leveling. He leveled and prepared for planting several sectionsof land in the vicinity of Fowder, and also made ditches for irrigation atFowler and Kerman. and later at Hanford. In 1890 he farmed wheat andbarley in the vicinity of Fowler, and it was in this year that he marriedMiss Ella
History of Fresno 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 . ed this business for sev-eral years. He also rented land and leveled it. and was a contractor forditching and leveling. He leveled and prepared for planting several sectionsof land in the vicinity of Fowder, and also made ditches for irrigation atFowler and Kerman. and later at Hanford. In 1890 he farmed wheat andbarley in the vicinity of Fowler, and it was in this year that he marriedMiss Ella ]\IcDowell. of Fowler, daughter of Calhoun and Mary (Martin)McDowell, both born and married in Evansville. Ind., who came to Califor-nia in 1882. settling first at Colusa. There the father died as the result ofblood-poisoning, and in 1885 the mother, who had married Wm. W^estcott,came with her two children to Fowler. These were: Ella McDowell, bornin Posey County, Ind., and Edgar, rancher and vineyardist on the McCallRoad, who owns a forty-acre vineyard in partnership with his children of the second marriage are living. The mother died at Fowlerat the age of sixty-three HISTORY OF FRESNO COUNTY 1139 After marriage Air. and Mrs. Harris rented the Harris home placeAvhere they lived, and he continued to farm hundreds of acres of wheat.^^l^ile living at Fowler, their only child, Ella Belle, now the wife of FloydPendergrass, a mechanic in the garage at Fowler, was born. She occupiesa responsible position in the First National Bank of Fowler. Mr. Harriswent onto the Burrell estate in the Wheatville section, rented 5,000 acresof land, and sowed 3,500 acres to wheat. He bought one of the first bigtractors that was ever used in Fresno County for plowing, harvesting andthreshing wheat. For this tractor he contracted to pay $10,000. Unfortu-nately this was at the time of the panic during Clevelands administration,and he met with great financial reverses. About 18
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