One of the rising young men of Pomona and its expanding, flourishing environs, who has gone ahead rapidly, thereby keeping pace with the town, is Mace B. Doutt, the foreman of the College Heights Orange and Lemon Association packing house at Claremont, who was born in Hitchcock County, Nebr., on December 19, 1888, and when eleven years old came to La Verne, Cal., with his parents. He was educated at the La Verne public schools, and growing up has been engaged in the orange and lemon industry ever since. In 1912 he bought an orange ranch of five acres in La Verne, which he developed and fully improved; and three years later he sold the property at a good bargain. When he was only fourteen he commenced to pick oranges, and at seventeen he started to work in the packing houses. He had thus already had some valuable experience with oranges before he came to own a grove for himself.
In 1913 he commenced to work for the packing house of the College Heights Orange and Lemon Association at Claremont, and early in 1918 he was made foreman of the plant. He now owns a ranch of sixty acres in Merced County, in the San Joaquin Valley, which is planted to almonds, the trees—four years old—just coming into bearing. This ranch in particular has a great future, and anyone might be proud to possess so handsome a young estate.
Mr. Doutt was married at La Verne on June 5, 1912, to Miss Adele Bussey, a native of La Verne, who has the distinction of being one of the first white children to have been born in the town. She is the daughter of Albert Bussey, born in Virginia, a pioneer of La Verne, who came there when there were only six houses in the town. Mrs. Doutt's mother was Mary Sallee before her marriage, and her parents were J. P. and Judith A. Sallee, born in Mt. Sterling, Ky., and Missouri respectively. Mr. Bussey was foreman of the Mills Tract on Lincoln Avenue, and was one of the first men to set out, improve and develop orange groves in the district. He brought the buds from the famous Sunnyside grove at Redlands. Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Doutt, and they bear the good old names of Jane and Richard.
History of Pomona Valley, California, with Biographical Sketches
of The Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been
Identified With Its Growth and Development from the Early Days
to the Present
Published in Los Angeles, Cal., by the Historic Record Company
1920
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 12/14/08, Pages 725-726
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