"The History of Tulare and Kings Counties California" by Eugene L Menefee and Fred A Dodge, published by Historic Record Company La, CA 1913
VAIL BROTHERS
Painting and paper hanging is now a well recognized trade, and those who succeed in it are men who like the Vail Brothers of Hanford. Kings county, Cal., have given years to its acquisition and practice. J. W. and E. M. Vail were born at Antioch, Contra Costa county, Cal., sons of F. M. Vail, a painter, who had himself served an apprenticeship to a trade which he had perfected by long years of experience. When the sons were mere boys their parents took them to Lemoore, Kings county, where their father taught them their trade and they began their career as contractors of painting and paper hanging.
It was in 1911 that they built their present store and shops on North Douty street, Hanford, materially extending their business after having devoted ten years of work and study to it. Besides handling materials for their own contracts, they sell house lining, wall paper, paint, oils and glass and merchandise of all kinds which can be utilized in interior or outside decoration of buildings.
There are not in Hanford, in the younger business circles, two more popular or well esteemed men than J. W. and E. M. Vail. They take a public spirited interest in all the affairs of the town and affiliate with several of its fraternal organizations, notably with the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Woodmen of the World. They are members of the Painters' union, of which J. W. has served as trustee and E. M. is the recording secretary.
In July, 1897. J. W. Vail married Miss Mary Bollman, a native of Atlanta, Ga.. then living in Kings county, and they have daughters named Mary and Agnes.
E. M. Vail married Miss Minnie Cox in 1901, and they have had two sons and a daughter. The second son died when two years of age. The two living are named respectively Frank and Minnie May.
To F. M. Vail, the father of J. W. and E. M. Vail, belongs the distinction of being the first man married in Kings county. His second union at an age of forty-three with his present wife, then Mrs. Hattie Stanton, a native of California, on the second day of June, 1893, is the first marriage recorded in said county.
VAIL BROTHERS
Painting and paper hanging is now a well recognized trade, and those who succeed in it are men who like the Vail Brothers of Hanford. Kings county, Cal., have given years to its acquisition and practice. J. W. and E. M. Vail were born at Antioch, Contra Costa county, Cal., sons of F. M. Vail, a painter, who had himself served an apprenticeship to a trade which he had perfected by long years of experience. When the sons were mere boys their parents took them to Lemoore, Kings county, where their father taught them their trade and they began their career as contractors of painting and paper hanging.
It was in 1911 that they built their present store and shops on North Douty street, Hanford, materially extending their business after having devoted ten years of work and study to it. Besides handling materials for their own contracts, they sell house lining, wall paper, paint, oils and glass and merchandise of all kinds which can be utilized in interior or outside decoration of buildings.
There are not in Hanford, in the younger business circles, two more popular or well esteemed men than J. W. and E. M. Vail. They take a public spirited interest in all the affairs of the town and affiliate with several of its fraternal organizations, notably with the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Woodmen of the World. They are members of the Painters' union, of which J. W. has served as trustee and E. M. is the recording secretary.
In July, 1897. J. W. Vail married Miss Mary Bollman, a native of Atlanta, Ga.. then living in Kings county, and they have daughters named Mary and Agnes.
E. M. Vail married Miss Minnie Cox in 1901, and they have had two sons and a daughter. The second son died when two years of age. The two living are named respectively Frank and Minnie May.
To F. M. Vail, the father of J. W. and E. M. Vail, belongs the distinction of being the first man married in Kings county. His second union at an age of forty-three with his present wife, then Mrs. Hattie Stanton, a native of California, on the second day of June, 1893, is the first marriage recorded in said county.
"The History of Tulare and Kings Counties California" by Eugene L Menefee and Fred A Dodge, published by Historic Record Company La, CA 1913
VAIL BROTHERS
Painting and paper hanging is now a well recognized trade, and those who succeed in it are men who like the Vail Brothers of Hanford. Kings county, Cal., have given years to its acquisition and practice. J. W. and E. M. Vail were born at Antioch, Contra Costa county, Cal., sons of F. M. Vail, a painter, who had himself served an apprenticeship to a trade which he had perfected by long years of experience. When the sons were mere boys their parents took them to Lemoore, Kings county, where their father taught them their trade and they began their career as contractors of painting and paper hanging.
It was in 1911 that they built their present store and shops on North Douty street, Hanford, materially extending their business after having devoted ten years of work and study to it. Besides handling materials for their own contracts, they sell house lining, wall paper, paint, oils and glass and merchandise of all kinds which can be utilized in interior or outside decoration of buildings.
There are not in Hanford, in the younger business circles, two more popular or well esteemed men than J. W. and E. M. Vail. They take a public spirited interest in all the affairs of the town and affiliate with several of its fraternal organizations, notably with the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Woodmen of the World. They are members of the Painters' union, of which J. W. has served as trustee and E. M. is the recording secretary.
In July, 1897. J. W. Vail married Miss Mary Bollman, a native of Atlanta, Ga.. then living in Kings county, and they have daughters named Mary and Agnes.
E. M. Vail married Miss Minnie Cox in 1901, and they have had two sons and a daughter. The second son died when two years of age. The two living are named respectively Frank and Minnie May.
To F. M. Vail, the father of J. W. and E. M. Vail, belongs the distinction of being the first man married in Kings county. His second union at an age of forty-three with his present wife, then Mrs. Hattie Stanton, a native of California, on the second day of June, 1893, is the first marriage recorded in said county.
VAIL BROTHERS
Painting and paper hanging is now a well recognized trade, and those who succeed in it are men who like the Vail Brothers of Hanford. Kings county, Cal., have given years to its acquisition and practice. J. W. and E. M. Vail were born at Antioch, Contra Costa county, Cal., sons of F. M. Vail, a painter, who had himself served an apprenticeship to a trade which he had perfected by long years of experience. When the sons were mere boys their parents took them to Lemoore, Kings county, where their father taught them their trade and they began their career as contractors of painting and paper hanging.
It was in 1911 that they built their present store and shops on North Douty street, Hanford, materially extending their business after having devoted ten years of work and study to it. Besides handling materials for their own contracts, they sell house lining, wall paper, paint, oils and glass and merchandise of all kinds which can be utilized in interior or outside decoration of buildings.
There are not in Hanford, in the younger business circles, two more popular or well esteemed men than J. W. and E. M. Vail. They take a public spirited interest in all the affairs of the town and affiliate with several of its fraternal organizations, notably with the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Woodmen of the World. They are members of the Painters' union, of which J. W. has served as trustee and E. M. is the recording secretary.
In July, 1897. J. W. Vail married Miss Mary Bollman, a native of Atlanta, Ga.. then living in Kings county, and they have daughters named Mary and Agnes.
E. M. Vail married Miss Minnie Cox in 1901, and they have had two sons and a daughter. The second son died when two years of age. The two living are named respectively Frank and Minnie May.
To F. M. Vail, the father of J. W. and E. M. Vail, belongs the distinction of being the first man married in Kings county. His second union at an age of forty-three with his present wife, then Mrs. Hattie Stanton, a native of California, on the second day of June, 1893, is the first marriage recorded in said county.
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