Person:William Orvis (1)

William Snow Orvis--A young man well known throughout the Southwest as a successful cattle grower and shipper, is Wm. S. Orvis of the Orvis ranch in Northern Stanislaus County. He was born in Stockton, November 8, 1893, but grew up on the present ranch. While William was yet a mer lad, his father, C. B. Orvis, encouraged him to start in the cattle business and gave him every assistance, so that by the time he was twelve, he had his own checking account, and was buying and handling cattle. The experience thus gained in his early years has given him a position of prestige among men years his senior.

    C. B. Orvis is a native of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac County.  He came to California in 1880, and here he married Mary Adale Snow of Stockton, a daughter of William Snow, who was born in New York and came to California in the fifties.  Great-grandfather Snow was born and married in England, then came to America and started across the plains; but, like many good men in those days, never reached the West, but was massacred by the Indians, who were always on the lookout.
    Wm. S. Orvis was named for his grandfather, William Snow, eldest of a family of three children:  Lydia Jane and Henry Bruce are single and live at home.  His father is the owener of large ranches; one consisting of 2,300 acres is rented to A. Gatesman of Oakdale, another of 1,000 acres is located two miles south of Thornton; also a 25-acre apple orchard at San Jose; and with his son, Wm. S., owns 825 acres at Temines devoted to raising stock, grain and alfalfa.  William S. Orvis is orperating the ranch of 5,000 acres in North precinct, Stanislaus County, owned by his mother, where he makes his home.  as has been stated, with his father he owns ther Termines ranch, west of Lodi, on the Sacramento River, comprising 825 acres, which they have reclained with other rances in the Termines Reclamation District.
    Mr. Orvis graduated from Oakdale high school in 1912 and then took a course at the University of California Agricultural College at Davis, Cal., during the winter of 1912-13.  he was married in Stockton in 1917 to Miss Grace Harriette Harper, who was born in Calaveras County, several years.  Mrs. Orvis is a graduate of the Stockton high school and the normal department of the Heald's Business College at Stockton.  They are the parents of one child, Bettie Ada.  Mr. Orvis has bought cattle in Old Mexico, California, Arizona and Nevada, in fact, all over the Southwest, and shipped them to his ranch, where they are fattened, then sold for beef.  From his comfortable residence on the ranch in North precinct as headquarters, he superintends his cattle business,a nd is very naturally a member of the California Cattlemen's Association.  A beliver in protection, he is a firm adherent of Repulican principles.

History of Stanislaus County, George Tinkham, 1921, page 1449, California State Library, Sacramento, California.

Orvis--In Stockton, California, October 7, 1964. William S. Orvis, husband of Grace Orvis of Farmington, father of Mrs. Bette Orvis Cooper of Stockton, C. Bruce Orvis of Framington, and the late William S. Orvis, Jr.; brother of the late Henry Bruce and Lydia Orvis; grandfather of nine; a native of California, age 70 years.

    Friends are invited to attend funeral services, Saturday, October 10, 1964 at 10 a.m. in the chapel of B. C. Wallace and Son, Inc., 520 N. Sutter Street, Stockton.  Tributes may be expressed through contributions to the Cancer Fund.  Committal at Park View Cemetery.

Stockton Record (Stockton, San Joaquin, California) Thursday, October 8, 1964, page 36, California State Library, Sacramento, California.

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William Snow Orvis--A young man well known throughout the Southwest as a successful cattle grower and shipper, is Wm. S. Orvis of the Orvis ranch in Northern Stanislaus County. He was born in Stockton, November 8, 1893, but grew up on the present ranch. While William was yet a mer lad, his father, C. B. Orvis, encouraged him to start in the cattle business and gave him every assistance, so that by the time he was twelve, he had his own checking account, and was buying and handling cattle. The experience thus gained in his early years has given him a position of prestige among men years his senior.

    C. B. Orvis is a native of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac County.  He came to California in 1880, and here he married Mary Adale Snow of Stockton, a daughter of William Snow, who was born in New York and came to California in the fifties.  Great-grandfather Snow was born and married in England, then came to America and started across the plains; but, like many good men in those days, never reached the West, but was massacred by the Indians, who were always on the lookout.
    Wm. S. Orvis was named for his grandfather, William Snow, eldest of a family of three children:  Lydia Jane and Henry Bruce are single and live at home.  His father is the owener of large ranches; one consisting of 2,300 acres is rented to A. Gatesman of Oakdale, another of 1,000 acres is located two miles south of Thornton; also a 25-acre apple orchard at San Jose; and with his son, Wm. S., owns 825 acres at Temines devoted to raising stock, grain and alfalfa.  William S. Orvis is orperating the ranch of 5,000 acres in North precinct, Stanislaus County, owned by his mother, where he makes his home.  as has been stated, with his father he owns ther Termines ranch, west of Lodi, on the Sacramento River, comprising 825 acres, which they have reclained with other rances in the Termines Reclamation District.
    Mr. Orvis graduated from Oakdale high school in 1912 and then took a course at the University of California Agricultural College at Davis, Cal., during the winter of 1912-13.  he was married in Stockton in 1917 to Miss Grace Harriette Harper, who was born in Calaveras County, several years.  Mrs. Orvis is a graduate of the Stockton high school and the normal department of the Heald's Business College at Stockton.  They are the parents of one child, Bettie Ada.  Mr. Orvis has bought cattle in Old Mexico, California, Arizona and Nevada, in fact, all over the Southwest, and shipped them to his ranch, where they are fattened, then sold for beef.  From his comfortable residence on the ranch in North precinct as headquarters, he superintends his cattle business,a nd is very naturally a member of the California Cattlemen's Association.  A beliver in protection, he is a firm adherent of Repulican principles.

History of Stanislaus County, George Tinkham, 1921, page 1449, California State Library, Sacramento, California.

Orvis--In Stockton, California, October 7, 1964. William S. Orvis, husband of Grace Orvis of Farmington, father of Mrs. Bette Orvis Cooper of Stockton, C. Bruce Orvis of Framington, and the late William S. Orvis, Jr.; brother of the late Henry Bruce and Lydia Orvis; grandfather of nine; a native of California, age 70 years.

    Friends are invited to attend funeral services, Saturday, October 10, 1964 at 10 a.m. in the chapel of B. C. Wallace and Son, Inc., 520 N. Sutter Street, Stockton.  Tributes may be expressed through contributions to the Cancer Fund.  Committal at Park View Cemetery.

Stockton Record (Stockton, San Joaquin, California) Thursday, October 8, 1964, page 36, California State Library, Sacramento, California.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Board.FBC.FBK.FTW.

   Date of Import: 14 May 2004

2. ↑ History of Stanislaus County by George Tinkham
   1449.
3. ↑ California Birth Index.