Visalia, CA, was named for Nathaniel Vise, a Kentucky native born in 1810 who later owned a restaurant in San Francisco that featured bear meat. He became know as "the bear hunter." In 1852, he filed on a quarter acre in what now is Visalia, near…
Nathaniel Vise, 1810 - 1888. Born in Maysville, Kentucky and married Matilda Jarbeau in Maysville in 1833. Vise is the man after whom Visalia was named. Nathainel Vise was a junior.