Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Black, Victor D. 1855 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

VICTOR D. BLACK, of Salnas, California, a leading milling and business man of
his vicinity, was born in Mt. Vernon, Black township, Jefferson county,
Illinois, August 11, 1855. He is a son of Samuel Black, Esq., of Castroville,
California, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. Black came to
California with his parents when he was eight years of age. His parents spent
the first three years in the mines, and then settled at Los Gatos, where the
subject of this sketch received the rudiments of a splendid business education.
His father, being an excellent miller, taught his son this business. At the age
of fifteen, he received his first experience as a miller in a small and somewhat
primitive mill on Soquel creek. This was a small custom mill, propelled with a
thirty-foot overshot wheel. He later milled at different points in the State,
and, in 1880, in partnership with his father, purchased a gristmill at
Castroville, which they operated until 1885, when they sold out. Mr. Black, of
this notice, then went to Salinas, and assumed charge of the Salinas mills for
C. L. Dingley, Esq., of San Francisco. The Central Milling Company was organized
during this year, of which Mr. Black became an incorporator, and in 1890, was
elected to a seat in its directory. The Central Milling Company commenced doing
business January 1, 1887. The entire Salinas interests of this heavy
corporation, which absorbed and controlled nearly all the milling interests
along the Southern Pacific railway line, in several counties of central
California, devolved upon Mr. Black, as Superintendent. The Sperry Flour Company
was incorporated August 5, 1892, with a capital of $10,000,000, $6,000,000 of
which is paid in. This corporation absorbs the interests of the Central Milling
Company; Sperry and Company of Stockton; the Pioneer Milling Company of
Sacramento city; the McCrary Milling Company of Sacramento city; the Buckeye
Mills of Marysville; the Golden Gate Mills of San Francisco; and the Chico
Milling Company of Chico, California, the combined capacity of which is about
6,000 barrels flour per day of twenty-four hours run. Mr. Black was one of the
incorporators, and is a director, of the Sperry Flour Company, and has the
management of the mills of the corporation at San Jose, Salinas, King City, Paso
Robles and San Luis Obispo. The foregoing plainly stated facts attest the
sterling qualities that Mr. Black possesses as a business man, which have placed
him in the front rank of the milling men on the Pacific coast.

  Mr. Black was married, July 30, 1890, to Misa Dalia Norris, a native daughter
of California, born at Sonoma, and a daughter of E. Norris, Esq. Mr. and Mrs.
Black have three interesting children: Victor D., Jr., and Lester, twins; and an
infant daughter.

  Mr. Black's eminent success in life is due entirely to his own ability,
industry and perseverance, supplemented by correct business methods and uniform
courtesy shown to all in the various walks of life.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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