Sutter County
Biographies
EDWARD W. ALLEN
A hustling industrial leader is Edward W. Allen, the efficient manager of the popular Ford garage at Live Oak, and one of the most progressive and popular agents in the great work of promoting the best interests of motordom, particularly in Northern California. He was born at Meridian, Cal., on June 24, 1879, the son of Edward W. and Clara (Schellenger) Allen. He was only six months old, when his father died. Edward W. Allen, Sr., came to California in 1875, and Grandfather E. T. Schellenger had had the well-known blacksmith shop at O’Banion Corners, a real institution in its day, and highly appreciated by the early settlers. It happened, therefore, that Edward Allen also learned the trade of blacksmith. Mrs. Allen is still living, highly esteemed and always interesting as a representative of old pioneer stock.
Young Edward Allen attended the public schools of his locality, and when the family moved to San Luis Obispo, about 1886, he went along. Having learned the smithy’s trade, he worked at it for seventeen years; and he has the satisfaction today of feeling that he turned out work superior to much of what the artisans seem to have too little time and patience for now. In 1913 he came to Marysville and entered the employ of Dunning Brothers Company, Ford dealers, as a blacksmith, continuing with them here until 1915, when he went to Wheatland for the same firm and superintended the building of the Ford garage there, opening the place and continuing as manager until June, 1919. Having become interested in the company, he was naturally selected, when the company decided to open a garage in Live Oak, to become manager of their business at that point; and since then he has been managing the well-known Ford headquarters, and in affording a superior service often patronized by owners of other cars, he has been more than successful. While at San Luis Obispo, he was deputy sheriff of the county, and by the faithful performance of that public trust, he has proven his standards of citizenship. In national politics he is a Democrat.
Mr. Allen was married at Yuba City, in 1904, to Miss Frances McAllon, of Yuba City, who is a native of England, but had come out to California and been reared here. Three children have blessed their union: Gerald, Leland and Edwina. Mr. Allen belongs to the Odd Fellows, the Elks, and the Modern Woodmen of America.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 951
MRS. ELIZABETH HOBBS BAILEY
The name which heads this review is one well known throughout the Tudor section, where she has resided all of her life. Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey was born one mile west of Tudor, Sutter County, a daughter of Joseph W. and Eliza Jane (Hawkins Rose) Hobbs. Eliza Jane Hawkins was born in Ohio in 1839, and at the age of three years accompanied her parents to Illinois. There she remained until she was seven, when the family removed to Iowa, where they spent the following nine years. In 1855 the family crossed the plains with an ox team and prairie schooner, taking six months to make the journey. They first settled in Yolo County, where they remained for one year, and then came to Sutter County, where they spent their remaining years. In 1857 Miss Hawkins was married to George Rose, a native of England, and three children were born to them: Margaret, George, Jr., and Benjamin F. In 1862 Mr. Rose passed away and in 1864 Mrs. Rose was married to Joseph W. Hobbs, a native of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs were the parents of four children: Mary E., Alice Bell, and James William all deceased; and Elizabeth, the subject of this sketch. The father of our subject passed away in 1875, the mother surviving until her eighty-first year. Elizabeth Hobbs attended the old Central district school in Sutter County.
On September 6, 1896, Miss Hobbs was married at her home to Walter E. Bailey, born on the old Bailey ranch one mile north of O’Banion Corners, a son of George W. and Mary E. (O’Banion) Bailey. George W. Bailey was born in Lincoln County, Ky., a son of Benjamin Franklin and Narcissus (Hazlewood) Bailey, both natives of Kentucky. George W. Bailey was brought up on a farm in Missouri, which he assisted in clearing and improving. In October, 1861, he enlisted in a company composed of scouts and guides, being one of five volunteer scouts from Pettis County. He served as a pilot to the army under General Fremont for three months. After the expiration of his enlistment he returned to his home, where he remained until 1864, when he came via Panama to California, locating in Sutter County. In 1873 he purchased 160 acres of land, which is now the home place of our subject; and in 1887 he acquired 320 acres more. The ranch was devoted to general farming, including the raising of cattle, horses, mules and hogs. On October 10, 1865, he was married to Miss Mary E. O’Banion, also born in Kentucky, but reared and educated in Missouri. Four children were born to them: Luella, Marcellus C., Walter E. (the husband of our subject), and Arthur. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey took up their residence on the old Bailey homestead, their portion of the Bailey estate being 160 acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were the parents of three children, namely: Walter L., Willard E., and Gertrude. Willard E. married Jessie E. Cope and they have one son, Willard Eugene, Jr. Mr. Bailey passed away February 25, 1905.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 951-952