San
Joaquin County
Biographies
EVERTS F. MILLS
Many years have passed since the
family to which this well-known citizen belongs became identified with the
interests of San Joaquin County. Its
members have taken an active and prominent part in the development of this
section of the state, in many way promoting its progress and advancement, and
their reputation is in no way diminished in this generation, for our subject,
who is numbed among the leading horticulturists of San Joaquin County, displays
in a marked degree the admirable characteristics which his name implies. The birth of Everts F. Mills occurred on the
Mills ranch one and one-half miles west of Lodi on March 29, 1889 his parents
being Freeman B. and Carrie C. (Ellis) Mills, both natives of San Joaquin
County. The father was born on the same
ranch. Freeman B. Mills is represented
on another page of this work.
Everts F. Mills began his education
at the Woodbridge grammar school; then entered the Lodi high school, later was
a student at the Stockton high school and after his graduation entered the
University of California, where he spent two years studying mining engineering
and chemistry. Since leaving the
University, his attention has been taken up with land development, being associated
with his father in the development of 400 acres north of the Mokelumne River
near Lockeford. He is the owner of 100
acres on the Lower Sacramento Road one and one-half miles west of Acampo, sixty
acres of which is in vineyard and the balance of forty acres is devoted to
orchard. This ranch is piped with
concrete pipe for irrigation, and the water is obtained by means of four-inch
and six-inch pumps driven by ten and twenty-horsepower motors.
The marriage of Mr. Mills occurred
at Stockton on September 6, 1914 and united him with Miss Regina Smallfield, a
native of Stockton, and daughter of A. A. and Sadie Smallfield. She obtained her education in the Stockton
schools. Her father came to Stockton in
the early days and is now manager for Austin Brothers of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Mills are the parents of three
children: Albert F., Frank E., and
Margaret C. Mr. Mills is interested in and
a director of the Rio Oso Fruit Company of Wheatland, of which his father is
president, and which is developing 900 acres of the Bear River land; and is
also a director in the Woodbridge Fruit Company. In politics he is a Republican; and
fraternally he is a member and past member of the Woodbridge Lodge, No. 131, F.
& A. M.; Stockton Chapter No. 28, R. A. M.; Stockton Council, R. & S.
M.; Stockton Commandery No. 8, K. T.; and Ben Ali Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S.,
Sacramento; and with this wife is a member of Woodbridge Chapter 118, O. E. S.,
of which he is Past Patron; and California Chapter, Acacia Fraternity, Berkeley. He is also a member of the Mokelumne Club and
Lions Club of Lodi, and the Woodbridge Gun Club.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1609. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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