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JOSEPH A. FITZELL. - As senior member of the firm of Fitzell Brothers, of Van Dusen township, the operators
of a large ranch of five hundred eighty acres which belongs to their father, Joseph A. Fitzell is well known through
this section of the county and is very highly esteemed. Associated with him is his younger brother, Frank Lester
Fitzell, both being natives of Eureka, the latter born January 22, 1890, and the former January 6, 1889. They have
been in charge of the ranch for a number of years, taking entire charge of it in 1908, and are making a very decided
success.
Mr. Fitzell spent his boyhood in Eureka, where he attended the public school, and then for five years worked in
his father's drug store there. His brother served a like apprenticeship in the business world for four years.Their
father is Charles R. Fitzell, a successful druggist of Eureka, owner and manager of the Fitzell Drug Company, on
F street. He is a native of Iowa, born at Cedar Rapids, December 15, 1860. His father, Joseph Fitzell, was a successful
general merchant at Cedar Rapids, and in 1873 he removed with his family to California, locating at Eureka. The
son, Charles R., received a grammar school education in Eureka, and later for a period of six years he was in the
employ of F. A. Week, who at that time was prominent as a druggist in Eureka. In 1880 he entered the Department
of Pharmacy, at the University of California, at Berkeley, graduating in 1883. Returning to Eureka he took charge
of Mr. Week's drug store for a period of four years and then bought out his employer and has since conducted the
business himself. He married Miss Mary D. Week, the daughter of F. A. Weck, and of their union nine children were
born, as follows: Bertha; Joseph A., the subject of this article; Frank L., partner with Joseph in the management
of the ranch at Blocksburg; Laura; Susan; Charles; Mary; Alfred; and Edward. At present Mr. Fitzell, Sr., resides
in a comfortable home on Fourteenth and M streets, in Eureka. Mrs. Fitzell's family is one of the oldest and most
highly respected of the early pioneer families of Humboldt county, and her parents are still living in San Francisco.
Since taking over the management of their father's ranch, Joseph A. and Frank L. Fitzell have made many improvements
and have greatly extended their business venture. They raise principally grain, hay and hogs, with. some cattle
and horses. They fatten and sell on an average of one hundred head of hogs per year, and they also breed a high
grade of Belgian horses. They are both sportsmen of a high order and deer and other game are plentiful in their
region. Their ranch is a model of care and enterprise and speaks well for the ability and industry of Fitzell Brothers.
From:
History of Humboldt County, California
With a Biographical Sketches
History by Leigh H. Irving
Historic Record Company
Los Angeles, California 1915
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