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Bayliss Family archive, 1906-1955.
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Title:
Bayliss Family archive, 1906-1955Bayliss
Abstract:
Ledgers and documents relating to the Bayliss Family businesses in Biggs, CA.
Date:
1906 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBayless family
Bayliss Ranch
Canals -- California
Construction
Farming
Ledgers (Accounting)
Ranching -- California
Note:
In 1865 Civil War veteran Aaron Bayliss and his five brothers began farming wheat in Glenn County, California. In the 1880s,
due to torrential rains and flooding, the Bayliss family moved to Butte County and switched from wheat to rice on a plot of
land near the town of Biggs. One of Aaron's sons, Daniel, became involved in the family ranch but left briefly to purchase
a general store in McCloud. He also operated a contracting firm involved in various Sacramento Valley projects including the
Western Canal near the Sutter Buttes. Daniel continued this line of work even after returning to the Bayliss Ranch, were his
sons Daniel Jr. and Worth introduced one of the first vertical rice dryers in Northern California. In the 1980s, Daniel Jr's
wife Donna took over the farm and replaced an exhausted walnut orchard with a successful organic botanicals operation.
Bayliss.
Gift; Donna Bayliss; Biggs, CA; 2014.
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Physical Description:
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1 archive box; 16 1/4 x 12 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.
1 manuscript box; 15 x 11 1/2 x 3 in.
Language:
English
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Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.