Ventura County Biographies

P. ALVIN RICE 

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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is a son of Thomas A. Rice, who came to Ventura County in 1883 and is one of the 
oldest and best known citizens of that section. His important relationships with 
the farming and business community are sketched on other pages.

His son has shown similar qualities of enterprise. Born in Ventura County July 
3, 1884, he attended the school established and maintained by his father under 
private tuition until fourteen,. Later he was educated for several years in St. 
Mathew Military School at San Mateo, at the age of seventeen entered Boone�s 
University School at Berkeley, California, where he was graduated in 1903, and 
for one year was in the University of California.

With the close of his college career he returned to Ventura County, and for six 
months was in the employ of the American Beet Sugar Company. After that he spent 
six months as a lineman for the Sugar Belt Street Car line, and this varied 
experience prefaced his real work in life, which has been farming. For several 
years he has rented 700 acres from his father�s estate, and has it planted in 
various crops of lima beans, beets and barley.

Mr. Rice is a York Rite Mason, a Shriner, a member of the Benevolent and 
protective Order of Elks, the Sigma Nu fraternity, the Phi Epsilon fraternity, 
and is a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. In July, 1906, at 
Oxnard he married Miss Kate L. Walker. Their one child, Lillian Flournoy is now 
in the public schools.
 
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917. pp 580