Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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ROY HENRY LEWIS
 
            An enterprising rancher who has done much toward the development of 
the Golden State is Roy Henry Lewis, who was born November 12, 1888, at 
Sacramento, Cal., the son of William V. and Rose (Schaefer) Lewis.  His father 
was born on the ocean when his parents were en route from Norway to the United 
States.  William V. Lewis� parents settled in Minnesota in 1863, and about 1883 
he came to Sacramento, Cal., and engaged in contracting and street-paving.  His 
wife was a native of the Golden State, born in Sacramento, and passed away in 
1919.  They were the parents of two children:  Blanch E., Mrs. Norman, of 
Rayville, La.; and Roy Henry, the subject of this sketch.     
            Roy Henry Lewis attended grammar and high school in Sacramento, and 
in 1907 started out for himself.  He became a clerk in the California National 
Bank, at Sacramento, where he was employed for six years.  He then went to 
Louisiana and worked for his brother-in-law on a ranch thirty miles east of 
Monroe, La.  In 1914 he came to Yuba County, and a year later he purchased fifty 
acres of open land in the Oakley tract, on and one-half miles northwest of 
Wheatland, which he has developed and devoted to French prunes, alfalfa, and the 
raising of poultry.
            On October 14, 1916, at Marysville, Cal., Roy Henry Lewis was united 
in marriage to Miss Hazel Hollingshead, who was born at Wheatland, the daughter 
of Joseph E. and Elizabeth (Gardner) Hollingshead, natives of Utah and 
Wheatland, Cal., respectively.  Her grandfather Gardner was one of the very 
early pioneers who came to the Golden State.  Hazel Hollingshead was educated at 
the Wheatland and Marysville public schools, and also attended the San Jose 
State Normal, after which she taught school in Yuba County previous to her 
marriage.  Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are the parents of three children:  Clay A., Clyda 
Rose, and Virginia Ellen.  Mr. Lewis is a stanch Republican.  Fraternally, he is 
a member of Sutter Lodge No. 100, I.O.O.F., of Wheatland, of which he is a Past 
Grand; and is also a member of Nicolaus Lodge No. 129, F. & A.M., Wheatland, in 
which he is Senior Warden.  Mrs. Lewis is a member of Wheatland Chapter No. 48, 
Order of the Eastern Star.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p.  594