Butte County
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HAROLD C. REYMAN
HAROLD C. REYMAN.—An attorney-at-law in San Francisco, who is a native son of Butte County, Cal., is Harold C. Reyman, born at Oroville, December.7, 1884 His father, Marcus Reyman, was one of the early settlers and upbuilders of Butte County. A native of Poland, he came, when a lad of thirteen years, to the United States. Making his own way, he finally came to California in 1855, and after a year’s experience in clerking in Marysville he came to Oroville in 1856, where he established himself as a tobacconist, meeting with unusual success. Believing in the improvement of the city in which he was doing business, as his means afforded, he built a brick store building on Montgomery Street, between Myers and Huntoon Streets. Interested in mining, he was associated with different parties, grub-staking and otherwise, in the recovery of the yellow metal from the earth. He also loved to see things grow and became interested in farming and horticulture.
The elder Reyman was one of the original members of the Oroville Citrus Association that set out the first commercial orange orchard at Oroville. Purchasing the old Ord Ranch on the Feather River, near Gridley, he improved and developed it. Comprising thirteen hundred acres of rich land under irrigation, devoted to grain, alfalfa and dairying, the ranch is still owned by the members of his family.
A year before his death the father moved to San Francisco, where he passed away, February 16, 1912, a much esteemed pioneer and mourned by his many friends in Butte County. Marcus Reyman married Julia Greenwald, a native daughter of San Francisco, her father being an Argonaut and forty-niner, who served as county treasurer of Nevada County, and was a prominent and influential politician. He died in Arcata. Marcus Reyman was a director in the Rideout-Smith Bank and for fifty years was a member of the Odd Fellows. His widow now makes her home in San Francisco. Their four children are all living, Harold C. being the third oldest.
Harold C. Reyman graduated from Oroville High School in 1902, after which he entered the University of California, completing the social science course in 1906, and graduating from the law department of the University in 1909. Since obtaining the degree of L.L. B. he has engaged in the practice of law in San Francisco.
Mr. Reyman naturally keeps in close touch with Butte County, for, aside from looking after the family interests in Oroville and the ranch on the Feather River, he is individually interested in horticulture and has developed two ranches, both having been cleared from the native brush and brought under irrigation to a high state of cultivation. One, of thirty acres, is an orange and olive orchard near Oroville, on the Wyandotte road, and the other is an olive grove at Wyandotte.
Fraternally Mr. Reyman is a Mason of the Scottish Rite degree and is also a member of the San Francisco Lodge of Elks.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1146-1147, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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