Sacramento County
Biographies
MELVILLE F.
DOYLE
MELVILLE F. DOYLE.--The important interests entrusted to the experienced contractors of the city and county of Sacramento, who have long enjoyed an enviable repute, are well represented in the activities of the Valley Construction Company, located at Harriett and Fifth Streets, with yards in Broderick, whose prompt discharge of all duties and obligations is due no doubt in part to the exceptional efficiency of its proprietor, Melville F. Doyle. He was born in San Francisco, I 1891, the son of George B. and Matilda C. (Cruyl) Doyle, who represented pioneer California families. His father, who is now deceased, having rounded out a useful and honorable career, was also a native of San Francisco, and his mother came to the Golden State when she was a child and now resides in Alameda.
Melville Doyle was educated in the parochial school near his home, and then became a student at St. Ignatius College, and there and later he received theoretical and practical instruction and training in engineering work. In 1915 he came to Sacramento, and four years later helped to organize the Valley Construction Company, Inc., and became its manager, continuing in that position until the company discontinued business, and dissolved the corporation. In January, 1923, Mr. Doyle engaged in business for himself under the name of the Valley Construction Company, which does a general cement contracting business, specializing in concrete irrigation and sewer work. Some of the larger contracts handled by Mr. Doyle were those for F.W. Kiesel, W.H. Devlin, Albert Meister and Hayward Reed. He keeps, on an average, twenty-five men on his payroll, and manufactures his pipe at his yard in Broderick. He is also part owner of the oil and service station which serves the motoring public and is located adjoining his yards. Mr Doyle is a member of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce.
In January, 1921, Mr Doyle married to Miss Marian Norris, of Sacramento, the ceremony occurring at Sacramento. They have one daughter, Marian Gloria Doyle. Mrs. Doyle shares her husband his public-spiritedness, and his willingness to engage in work for the benefit of the locality generally. He is a man above party, and never loses an opportunity to work for the selection of the best men and endorsement of the best measures.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages 904-905. Historic Record Company,
Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.