Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS. MAY A. BEAUVILLE
MRS.
MAY A. BEAUVILLE.--An interesting, inspiring example of what a gifted woman,
with the proper purpose in life, may accomplish, particularly in the management
of agricultural property, is afforded by Mrs. May A. Beauville, who lives on
her trim acres about four miles north of Clay.
She was born in Buckeye Valley,
Amador County,
the daughter of J. Oscar Taylor, a native of Wisconsin,
who had married Miss Fanny McKee, a native of Calaveras
County, whose father, in turn was a native of Massachusetts
and an early California pioneer.
He mined at Mokelumne Hill, and there the mother of our subject who lived to be
fifty-four years old, was born. J. O. Taylor is still living, near Eugene,
Ore., at the ripe old age of eighty-seven,
enjoying life raising strawberries, something he had wanted for years to do.
May Taylor
accompanied her parents to Pineville, Ore.,
together with her two brothers, Henry, now deceased, and Harry, who lives at
Eugene, Ore., and at Pineville she went to school, getting there the foundation
of that training which has enabled her to accomplish so much, so well. On September 28, 1892, she was married to
William Beauville, a native of San Francisco. In 1910, she returned to Clay, where she
inherited forty acres of the old McKee Ranch estate that first fell to her
mother, through whom, at the latter’s death, she received her portion. She now not only manages this tract, but she
also leases eighty acres belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Howard and George McKee,
of Fulton, and during the summer
months she conducts a small dairy. In
her agricultural operations she has employed the most scientific, up-to-date
methods and the best of mechanical outfits, and with her exceptional acumen and
enthusiastic liking for work, she has produced results such as would reflect
the highest credit upon farmers of far greater experience and
opportunities. In national polities she
is a Republican.
In her home life,
so attractive to all who have the chance to enjoy it hospitality, Mrs.
Beauville has the company of a daughter, Edith, who is an actress, having
traveled for about five years, seeing much of life in New York City, but who
has given up the stage and is now living at home with her mother, a help and a
comfort to her, and a welcome hostess, with her mother, to the favored who
visit this Sacramento County ranch.
Transcribed by
Patricia Seabolt.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 336. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Patricia Seabolt.