Mendocino County CA Archives Biographies.....Melville, Charles B. December 28, 1879 - 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages  111 - 112
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     CHARLES B. MELVILLE, postmaster of Fort Bragg, has had many years of 
active association with the commercial interests of Mendocino County. He is 
still interested in the lumber industry, and most of his active career in 
California was identified with this business.

     Mr. Melville was born in the Old Dominion State of Virginia, December 28, 
1879. His father, Andrew Melville, was for many years a business man in the 
City of Washington, D. C. His mother was Barbara Shreve, also a native of 
Virginia.

     Charles B. Melville attended the grade and high schools at Washington. 
During his early manhood he spent three years as a Virginia farmer. In 1898, 
when he was nineteen years of age, he enlisted for service in the Spanish-
American war with the Third Virginia Volunteer Infantry. After being released 
from military duty he came to California, for a time worked in the mines and 
then in the lumber camps of Mendocino County. Mr. Melville was in the lumber 
business actively in this county for twenty-three years. His home has been at 
Fort Bragg since the fall of 1913.

     He was appointed postmaster in April, 1930, and now gives his time to the 
direction of the business of that office. He has been a leader in civic 
affairs and was a member of the California State Legislature in 1925-27, 
served on the State Central Committee of the Republican party in 1928-29, and 
for two terms was high school trustee of Fort Bragg.

     Mr. Melville is a member of the California Postmasters Association and is 
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
He married Miss Ida C. Mills, who was born at Ukiah, member of a pioneer 
Mendocino County family. They have four children: Rita, wife of Dr. Glen 
Carlson; Vivian, wife of E. E. Dowe: Charles E. and Lois.

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