The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 997 

A. BERT WILCOX.

A. Bert Wilcox is the owner of important ranching interests in the Yakima
valley. He makes his home in the city of Yakima, from which point he directs
his agricultural interests. He was born in Wales on the 23d of August, 1868, a
son of C. P. and Anna Maria (McKinstry) Wilcox, both of whom are natives of New
York, and they were on a visit in Wales when their son was born. The father was
a contractor and followed that pursuit in order to provide for the support of
his family. In the year 1872 he left the east and removed to Minnesota, where he
resided for more than a decade, and in 1886 he arrived in Washington. He lived
in the Sound district until 1889, when he came to Yakima. He had been prominent
in the lumber business in Minnesota and had established and successfully
conducted thirteen yards in that state. He is now living retired, for well
earned rest has crowned his years of intense and well directed activity. Putting
aside business cares, he is now enjoying the fruits of his former toil, having a
comfortable competence that supplies him with all of the necessities and many of
the luxuries of life. For several years he lived in Yakima but he and his wife
now make their home in Pasadena, California, to which place they removed in
1908. While in Yakima, Mr. Wilcox developed considerable property in the city
and contributed in no small degree to its development and improvement.

A. Bert Wilcox supplemented his public school training by study in Hamline
University at St. Paul, Minnesota, and in January, 1890, he arrived in Yakima,
after which he purchased wild land on the Parker bottom. This he developed into
a fruit ranch and has a fine orchard of eighty acres. He now rents his ranch,
having removed to Yakima in 1910, since which time he has made his home in the
city. He was connected with the Yakima Transfer & Storage Company for three
years and did a successful business in that connection but at the end of that
period sold out.

He has bought and sold several properties and business interests but has
practically retired. However, he is still the owner of two excellent ranch
properties, from which he derives a gratifying annual income.

On March 1, 1899, Mr. Wilcox was married to Miss Grace A. Goodwin, a daughter
of J. W. Goodwin, who was the first white settler in the Cowiche valley. Mr. and
Mrs. Wilcox have become the parents of a son, Kenneth B., seventeen years of age
and now a high school student.

Mfr. Wilcox is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also
with the Knights and Ladies of Security. His political endorsement is given to
the republican party but the honors and emoluments of office have had no
attraction for film, as he has always preferred to concentrate his efforts and
attention upon his business affairs. His judicious investments, his keen
sagacity and his unfaltering purpose have been the salient elements in attaining
the success which he now enjoys.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.