User:Circle M Rance

Circle M Ranch== == Circle M Ranch is the name of the Millerick Brother's Rodeo and Stock company which populated 126 acres in the southern Sonoma valley, four miles south of the city of Sonoma's historic Plaza, in the unincorporated area known as Schellville. During the early 1920's trough the 1940's the family was among the most prominent if Sonoma valley.

Irish immigrant Michael James Millerick bought the ranch in the late 1800's and moved there with his wife, Catherine and his five children. There were four brothers and one sister. In addition to being a full operating ranch with cattle, milk cows, chickens and all the operational set up which comes with this, the Millerick Brother's were for many years the largest rodeo stock contractors on the west coast, providing rodeo stock to many rodeo's as well as the internationally known Miller Brothers, 101 Ranch and Wild West Show operated out of north eastern Oklahoma.

In 1929, the year the Miller Brother's closed their rodeo, Tom Millerick and his brother Jack and George started the annual Millerick Brothers rodeo on the Circle M ranch in Schellville. The annual rodeo ran until 1952 when Tom Millerick's son James F. Millerick closed the business to enter a career in the U.S. Air Force as an aircraft commander (B 29's, B 47's and B 52's). In 1959 upon returning to Sonoma following his retirement, Jim Millerick and his family decided to bring down the barns and rodeo ground facilities for fire safety. The entire ranch complex of barns and rodeo arena, grandstands and corrals were burned down.

Three decades later, following the passing of Jim Milleick's mother, Mary Watt Millerick, Jim and his sister Hellen, "Cissy" Millerick Larson divided the Circle M Ranch. Cissy and her husband Dr. Robert Larson (a prominent S.F. bay area veterinarian) moved onto the ranch, into the house purchased by the Millerick Brother's father, Michael James Millerick, in the late 1800's. In the following years Dr. Larson and his son's built a winery complex, planted grapes and began producing award wining wine under the label Sonoma Creek Winery. The winery is now named Larson Family Winery and is operated by Ton Larson and his wife Becky.

Tom Larson is Hellen Millerick Larson's son and Michael James Millerick's great grandson.