Sacramento County
Biographies
THEODORE C.
POOLE
THEODORE C. POOLE.--The life history of Theodore C. Poole is a record of the interesting and successful undertaking of a man who has known how to avail himself of opportunities. A native son of Sacramento County, he was born on Andrus Island, April 29, 1876, a son of Francis and Sarah (Norman) Poole, both natives of Illinois. Francis Poole crossed the plains to California with ox teams in 1852 and mined until 1860, when he returned East and was married to Miss Sarah Norman. Before returning East he had purchased a ranch on Andrus Island and to this ranch he brought his bride, where they resided until 1882, when they removed to the vicinity of Sacramento, where he farmed. Eight children were born to them: Albert; Minnie; Anna; Theodore C., our subject; Alice; Blanch; Edward; and Ernest. The father passed away at the age of sixty-five, the mother surviving him until she was seventy years old.
Theodore C. Poole attended the American River district school and from his boyhood learned farming. At twenty-one years of age he leased 160 acres and engaged in fruit-growing on Andrus Island; his present ranch home is a portion of this which he purchased, and is devoted to orchard and asparagus growing. A believer in cooperation as the best means for marketing the farmers’ crops, he is a member of the California Pear Growers’ Association.
At San Francisco, in November, 1908, Mr. Poole was married to Miss Eva Rice, a native of Susanville, Cal., daughter of George and Anna Rice, early settlers in Lassen County. One son has been born to Mr. And Mrs. Poole, Theodore, Jr. In 1918 Mr. Poole erected a fine residence on his ranch. He is a Democrat in politics and fraternally is a past grand of the Isleton Lodge, No. 108, I. O. O. F. He was made a Mason in Franklin Lodge, F. & A. M., at Courtland; and he and his wife are members of the Rebekah Lodge at Isleton, of which Mrs. Poole is a past noble grand. For eight years, from 1915 to 1923, Mr. Poole served as justice of the peace of Georgiana Township.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 901.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.