California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


P. ALVIN RICE 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.