Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

CHARLES J. WEIS

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Another rancher and orchardist of whom Californians may well be 
proud, is Charles J. Weis, of the Encinal District, Live Oak, whose methods and 
results have long been a source of profitable interest to others striving to 
attain the best and largest returns.  He owns thirty-six acres of highly 
developed peach orchard, and great credit is due him for his successful work in 
the fruit industry, he having taken up this place in 1914, when it was a barren 
stubble field.
            Mr. Weis was born on January 15, 1896, at Grimes, in Sutter County, 
the youngest son of the late Charles R. and Elizabeth (Boles) Weis, worthy 
pioneer folk who did their duty by helping to open the paths needed in their 
day, and to make things easier and safer for the generations to come after them. 
 Mr. Weis died on March 14, 1918, esteemed by all who knew him; and Mrs. Weis is 
still living, at her son�s home, the center of a circle of admiring and devoted 
friends.  These good people were pioneer settlers of Winship and Grimes, in 
Sutter County.  On selling his ranch in 1914, Charles J. Weis removed to the 
Encinal District, to enter the fruit industrial field.  
            Our subject received an excellent training and a good start in life 
at the Winship district school, and as a youth was reared on his father�s farm.  
He took up clerical work at Marysville, being employed in the warehouse of the 
J. R. Garrett Company; and he was there, in 1917, when on the 19th of May he 
enlisted in the Army Guard Transport service; in the Merchant Marine fleet.  He 
also attended the Harvard Radio School for five months.  He was rated 
second-class petty officer, and shipped on the United States steamer Sagadahoc, 
on which he made six voyages to Europe, and he recalls vividly his experience on 
the high seas, with the hazard of submarine warfare, upon the vessel on which he 
served, under command of Lieut.-Colonel A. R. Cushing.  On May 1, 1919, he was 
honorably discharged at Mare Island.
            During his absence from home, his father handled the ranch; but it 
was also during this period of service for the country that his revered and 
beloved parent passed away, and then a brother, Alvan, an attorney-at-law in 
Marysville, assumed charge of the farm.  Charles Weis is a member of the 
California Canning-Peach Growers� Association.
            At Yuba City, in the year 1922, Mr. Weis was married to Miss Eula 
McAuslan, a native of Live Oak, the daughter of William McAuslan, a worthy 
representative of the well-known Sacramento Valley family of Peter McAuslan.  
One daughter, Roberta Weis, has blessed this union.  Since 1915 Mr. Weis has 
been a member of the Woodmen of the World, of Yuba City; and having a particular 
fondness for hunting and fishing, he is a member of the Live Oak Gun Club, and 
is also active in the Blue Rock Gun Club.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1319