One of Sacramento’s energetic,
capable and successful insurance men is Boyd Oliver, member of the firm
Chrisler & Oliver, with offices at 201 Forum building. He was born in
Portland, Oregon, on the 1st of December, 1900, and is a son of
Emery and Anna (Sylvester) Oliver, the latter now deceased. The father was a
prominent civil engineer, in which profession he did much important work in
this section of the country for many years, but is now retired. The family
removed from Portland to Oroville in 1902, and to Sacramento in 1909, and here
Boyd Oliver attended the public and high schools. After graduating from the
latter, he attended the University of California for two years then entered
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated with the degree
of Bachelor of Science in engineering in 1924. After returning west he was
first regularly employed as first assistant engineer of the California and
Oregon Power Company. During 1925-26 he served as resident engineer in charge
of the concrete construction for the East Bay Utility District pipe line across
the Sacramento valley. In 1927-28 he was sales manager for the Calaveras Cement
Company for northern California, Oregon and Nevada, and in November 1928 he
turned his attention to the insurance business, becoming at that time a member
of his present firm. In this line of effort he has been very successful and has
proven an aggressive, tactful and able business man.
Mr. Oliver was married to Miss
Corinne Kiesel, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kiesel, and they are the
parents of two children, Boyd Jr., and Robert. He gives his political support
to the republican party, and is a member of the Rotary Club, the Del Paso
Country Club and the Sutter Club. Outdoor life appeals to him and he is fond of
golf, hunting and fishing.
Transcribed
by Debbie Walke Gramlick.
Source: Wooldridge, J.W. Major History of the
Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2 pgs. 227-228. The Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2005 Debbie Walke Gramlick.