Merced-Lake County CA Archives Biographies.....Van Den Heuvel, Roy 1875 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

ROY VAN DEN HEUVEL

   One of the many highly respected citizens of Merced County is Roy van den
Heuvel, a resident of Merced and proprietor of the Merced Monumental Works and a
cement contractor. He is a native son of California, born at Santa Rosa, on July
22, 1875, a son of William and Eliza (Iles) van den Heuvel. About 1872 William
van den Heuvel came from his native country of Holland to the United States and
directly to California and located in Lake County; he passed away in 1888, while
the mother of our subject is still living.

   Roy van den Heuvel received a public school education and when the family
located in Merced, he learned the butcher trade with Banks & Bedesen, working
for them five years. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he volunteered
for service and was made first lieutenant of Company H, 6th Infantry of the 1st
Battalion; after serving eight months he returned to Merced. He began clerking
in a grocery store but after three months secured the position of janitor of the
high school, which he occupied for eight years, the last two years acting in the
capacity of assistant manual training instructor. He resigned this position and
served as deputy sheriff of the county for four years, at the end of which time
he engaged in the cement construction business and in 1918 established the
Merced Monumental Works; he does all kinds of flat concrete work, including
sidewalks, curbs, foundations, gutters, copings and vaults.

   The marriage of Mr. van den Heuvel united him with Miss Mary Gstrein and of
this union two sons have been born, Cyril A. and Raymond W. Mr. van den Heuvel
is a Democrat in his political views, and fraternally has been clerk of the
Woodmen of the World camp for eighteen years; he is also a member of the B. P.
O. Elks and the Odd Fellows lodges of Merced.


Additional Comments:
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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