Biographies
UBURTO L. DIKE
Born
in Cleveland, Ohio, December 7, 1865, Uberto L. Dike
was the son of Latimer M. and Lucinda J. Dike, prominent residents of that
place. In 1873 they moved to Cawker City, Mitchell county,
Kans., where he attended school until sixteen years of age, coming then to
California and locating in Los Angeles, where he was graduated from the high
school at the age of twenty. One year in a business college fitted him for
employment and he went to work in the office of the Bear Valley Irrigation
Company at Redlands, first as a stenographer and later as bookkeeper of the
concern. Remaining in this capacity until 1891, he then bought out the Redlands
Abstract and Title Co., which he conducted for about seven years, also doing a
large real estate business. In 1902 he removed to Los Angeles and organized the
U. L. Dike Investment Co., but in 1906 located permanently in Sacramento, where
he found a fertile field for real estate investment. He subsequently organized
the California Colonization Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. As
its name implies this company was organized for colonization purposes. It has
agencies all over the east and their object is to interest people in this coast
country for location on lands which the company controls.
Mr.
Dike was married in Los Angeles to Miss Elva Dunstan,
who passed away five years later.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 1000-1001. Historic Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.