Merced-Stanislaus County CA Archives Biographies.....McBride, Willard K. 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

WILLARD K. McBRIDE

   A man of unquestioned ability and integrity, active and enterprising, Willard
K. McBride, as manager of the California Milk Products Company, is prominently
identified with the industrial progress of Merced County; he is also interested
in agriculture, owning a half interest in a forty-acre ranch in Stanislaus
County and a twelve-acre ranch devoted to walnuts at Gustine, Merced County. His
birth occurred on his father's ranch near Salida, March 15, 1895, a son of S. N.
and Alice M. (Keeley) McBride. The father came to California about 1876 and
followed teaching for about nineteen years. He married Miss Keeley, whose family
came to California in an early day, and they are now living retired on their
ranch near Gustine.

   Willard K. McBride is the only child of his parents. His education was
obtained at the grammar and high school in Modesto; then he was sent to the
Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania and during this time was an understudy with
Smith-Kline & French Company in Philadelphia. In October, 1917 he entered the
United States Army and was placed in the 154th Depot Brigade of the 79th
Division; he was promoted to the post of sergeant and attended the 3rd Officer's
Training School at Camp Mead, Md., and at that camp received his discharge on
account of disability. He returned to Modesto, Cal., and worked for one year for
the Carpenter Cheese Company in Modesto. In 1919 he located at Gustine and
assumed the management of the California Milk Products Company; this company
manufactures milk sugar, albumin and casein. Under the able supervision of Mr.
McBride this company has built up a fine business which is steadily growing from
month to month, as the products become better known.

   On September 9, 1919, Mr. McBride was married to Miss Ora Lathrop Powers, a
native of California, daughter of Lathrop B. Powers, a farmer residing near
Oakdale. Mrs. McBride passed away in July, 1920. On July 23, 1924 he married
Miss Fay Truitt, a native daughter of California. Mr. McBride is a Republican in
his political views and fraternally belongs to Hills Ferry Lodge No. 136, F. &
A. M., of Newman; Modesto Chapter No. 49, R. A. M.; Modesto Commandery No. 57,
K. T., and Aahmes Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Oakland; and to Romero Lodge No.
413, of Gustine.



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From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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