Rich (Family : Rich, Ben. E. (Benjamin Erastus), 1855-1913)

Sandy Borbón Rich (born 1950) is the wife of William Jacobson Rich.

Sandra Borbón Rich, daughter of Joseph Borbón and Margarita Marcos Acosta, was born in Fresno, California, in 1950. Rich graduated from Overfelt High School in San Jose, California, in 1968. She has worked as a salesperson for most of her adult life and, with her husband William, worked in the sales department of their business. Sandy retired in 2008 when she and her husband sold their business.

William Jacobson Rich (born 1940) is the grandson of Ben E. Rich and Alice M. Rich.

William Jacobson (Bill) Rich, son of Francis Wilson Rich and Romania Jacobson Rich, was born in Oakland, California, on July 29, 1940. Rich graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1958. He later served in the United States Army as an artillery surveyor, and was discharged in 1967. Rich loves cars and for most of his life has worked in or around the automobile industry. In May 1993 he and his wife Sandy Borbón Rich opened a successful automobile "aftermarket accessories" (Sacramento Valley Sunroofs, Inc.) in Sacramento, California. Bill and Sandy retired from that business 2008. Rich is a Master Mason, Past Master of Live Oak Lodge, and Past President of the Board of Directors at Live Oak Lodge in Oakland, California. He is also a member of the Scottish Rite Shrine.

The Rich family was a prominent Mormon family in Idaho and Utah. Ben. E. Rich (1855-1913) was a Mormon missionary, politician, and newspaperman, and is best known for his service as mission president in the Southern States Mission and the Eastern States Mission. Rich was a polygamist, marrying five times between 1877 and 1899. His wives included Diana Farr (1877), Rosabell Osmond (1885), Andrea Christiana Jenson (1888), Laura Bowring (1898), and Alice Caroline McLachlan (1899).

From the guide to the William Jacobson and Sandy Borbón Rich collection on the Ben E. and Alice M. Rich family, 1884-1938, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)