ARTHUR EARL AVERILL
Summit District- Santa Cruz Mountains
A native son of the Golden West who is energetic in
his desire to aid in the upbuilding and improving of this favored
region of the globe, Arthur Earl Averill was born in Santa Cruz, May
13, 1893, a son of Volney and Alice (Schultheis) Averill.
The father was a pioneer of the Santa Cruz Mountains and a veteran of
the Civil War, elsewhere represented in this history, while the
mother was a native of Santa Clara County, a daughter of John
Martin Schultheis, one of the earliest pioneers of the Santa Cruz
Mountains. Arthur Earl was the youngest of their seven children
and received his education in the Summit school, from which he was
graduated, after which he completed a special course in the Acme
Business College in Seattle. He then returned to the home ranch,
were from a boy he had assisted as best he could, thus learning the
various phases of orcharding. A year later, in 1915, he leased
the home ranch from his father and operated it with success. In
the fall of 1920 he went to Arcata. Humboldt County, where he was
employed in the cattle business with the Minors. In June 1921, he
returned to the Summit, and a year later he purchased his father's
ranch of seventy-five acres, which he devotes principally to the
culture of prunes; he is a member of the California Prune and Apricot
Association.
The marriage of Mr. Averill occurred in Oakland on February 24, 1915,
being united with Sophie Larsen, a daughter of Ole and Anna
(Hemmingsen) Larsen. The father is now superintendent of the
Mountain View Cemetery at Piedmont. Mr. and Mrs. Averill are the
parent of two children, Dorothy Catherine and Gladys Eley. Mr.
Averill is a member of the board of trustees of Summit school districts where he, as well as his mother, attended school.
Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922, page 1261