Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ROY J. VAN TIGER

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Among the younger generation of orchardists of progressive spirit and 
unfaltering perseverance is Roy J. Van Tiger.  He is the owner of eighty acres 
of fine, productive land in Sutter County, and in addition leases the Oak Grove 
Farm of 160 acres.  The Oak Grove Farm is located midway between Yuba City and 
Live Oak.  The farm buildings are built on a knoll from which a beautiful view 
of the surrounding country can be obtained; and the entrance to the farm is made 
through a five-acre grove of magnificent oak trees, about 150 in number.
Roy J. Van Tiger was born near Sutter City, January 23, 1890, a son of Henry and 
Elizabeth Van Tiger, who are now living retired in Yuba City.  He received his 
education in the district schools of Sutter County and Marysville High School.  
At the age of fifteen, he entered the employ of the Flannery Shoe Store in 
Marysville, where he worked steadily for four years.  Then he took a job with 
the Empire Garage, and made good as an automobile salesman.  He was thrifty and 
saving, and in the spring of 1910 assumed the responsibility of his father�s 
ranch of 160 acres, where he has since resided, and which, as stated above, he 
is operating in addition to his own ranch of eighty acres, or  240 acres in all. 
 About 100 acres of this land are devoted to orchard and vineyard.  As early as 
1911, he established a dairy on his ranch and named it Oak Grove Dairy, after 
the name he had given the ranch.  His heard of dairy cows numbered about fifty 
head of high-grade Holstein and Guernsey cattle.  He conducted the dairy for 
about eleven years.  The orchards and vineyard on the ranch then began to take 
all of his time, and he sold his dairy herd, to give all of his time to his 
horticultural and viticultural enterprise.  Mr. Van Tiger was fortunate, when 
drilling his well, to strike an abundance of water, a seemingly never-failing 
supply.  His pumping plant consists of an eight-inch centripetal pump, which has 
direct connection with a thirty-horse electric motor, yielding him 2200 gallons 
a minute.  Thus, he is able to irrigate every part of his ranch.
At Oroville, Mr. Van Tiger was married to Miss Sarah Cramsie, a native of 
Smartsville, Cal.  Mrs. Van Tiger received her teacher�s certificate from the 
Wilkins School at Marysville, and followed the profession of teaching for ten 
years.  Mr. and Mrs. Van tiger are the parents of one child, Frances E.  Mrs. 
Van Tiger was elected school trustee of the Encinal District in April, 1923; and 
she is also interested in welfare work of a constructive character.  
Fraternally, Mr. Van Tiger is a member of the Knights of Columbus of Marysville. 
 In politics he is a Republican.  He is a member of the California Peach and 
Apricot Association, and the Sun Maid Raisin Growers� Association.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1019