Delbert T. Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: From History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties California, Volume 2, 1917, By Charles Montville Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Page 751, 1874, Ventura, California. Delbert T. Beckwith. In all the varied fortunes of the famous and fertile Santa Clara Valley the members of the Beckwith family have had a part for over forty years.

The work by which he has made himself a factor in this valley Mr. Delbert T. Beckwith has performed as a rancher and fruit grower. He was born in Eaton County, Michigan, January 31, 1869, and is a son of Francis Jefferson Beckwith, whose career as a pioneer in Southern California has been sketched on other pages. Delbert T. Beckwith came out to California with his parents in 1874 when he was five years of age. He grew up in Ventura County, attended the public schools there till the age of seventeen, and for several years had a good deal of practical experience in working on his father's ranch.

He made his independent start by renting forty acres from his father. He farmed that until 1892, when his father gave him a deed of title to the land, and with the death of his father on December 30, 1901, he inherited seventy acres additional. He made all that tract a splendid bean plantation, and for years has been one of the leading bean growers in the valley. In 1905 Mr. Beckwith bought an eighteen acre walnut orchard, and now lives on that place, which is not far from his other land in Santa Clara Valley.

Mr. Beckwith is a republican. In Santa Paula in July, 1889, he married Miss Abbie Smith, a native of Michigan. They are the parents of three children : Mrs. Pearl Armstrong of Ventura County; Fred, who is twenty- four years of age and is working on the ranch with his father; and Mrs. Ruth Lederle of Los Angeles.

• Residence: From 1910 Census, 1910, Santa Paula, Ventura, Califonia. Name: Fred A Beckwith
Birthplace: California
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Residence: Santa Paula, Ventura, California
Marital Status: Single
Race : White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Michigan
Mother's Birthplace: Michigan
Family Number: 17
Page Number: 1
Household Gender Age
Parent Delbert T Beckwith M 41y
Parent Abbie E Beckwith F 38y
Fred A Beckwith M 18y
Ruth L Beckwith F 15y

Delbert married Abbie E. Smith in Jul 1889 in Santa Paula, California. (Abbie E. Smith was born in 1872 in Michigan.)