James Griffin Boswell

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James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 - 1952), was founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, known today as the world's largest privately owned farm. Primary crops include Pima cotton, alfalfa hay, tomatoes, onions, and wheat, all cultivated on some 135,000 acres in Kings county, California. Boswell, who came to Pasadena, California as a regional cotton broker from Greene county, Georgia, established his company in Corcoran, California in 1921. The company is now headed by his nephew, J. G. Boswell, II., who is credited for the company's massive growth during the last half of the twentieth century.

Born in Penfield, Georgia, he was the son of Georgia State Legislator Joseph Osgood Boswell and Minnie Griffin both members of pioneer Georgia families. He was married twice, first to Alaine Buck (1886 - 1938) and secondly to Ruth Chandler (1897 - 1987) daughter of Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler and his second wife Emma Marian Otis, Secretary of the Times-Mirror Coompany.

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