LEONARD BETTY

 

A man of liberal education, Leonard Betty is endowed with an alert mind and has occupied the responsible position of principal of the Sutter City Grammar School for the past three years, during which time the school has shown a marked advancement along educational lines.  His birth occurred on his father’s ranch near Meridian, and he is a son of Horace Ackley and Bettie (Kennedy) Betty, natives of Vermont and North Carolina, respectively.

Leonard Betty began his education in the district schools of Meridian and Brittan.  He was graduated from the Sutter Union High School, class of 1913, after which he entered the University of California.  In 1916 he was graduated from the Chico Normal School.  His military service began with the California National Guards, and as sergeant of Company A, 2^nd California Infantry, he was sent to Nogales, Ariz., for border duty.  During the World War he was stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., and was placed in charge of troops sent from one camp to another.  After his discharge at the Presidio, in San Francisco, he returned to his home and secured a position as teacher in the Meridian district school, where he remained for one year.  He then came to Sutter City as principal.  There are 130 pupils and four teachers in this school.  Mr. Betty is a Republican in politics.  Fraternally, he is a member of the American Legion at Marysville and the Odd Fellows at Meridian; and he is also a member of the Del Rey Club at the University of California.

Professor Betty was married on June 21, 1923, to Miss Gladys Moore of Sutter City.  She was born in Sutter County, a daughter of Jefferson Moore, of Sutter.

 

ADELBERT EDMOND SCHELLENGER

 

An experienced agriculturist, who has been honored with a call to important public service, is Adelbert Edmond Schellenger, of Sutter City, now an ex-supervisor of Sutter County, from the third supervisorial district.  A native of the State of Illlinois, he was born in Boone County, near Capron, on April 1, 1867, the son of Edmond Tift and Almena (Burgett) Schellenger, both natives of Ohio.  His father first came out to California in 1860; but five years later he returned to Illinois, where he remained until 1875, when he brought his family to the Golden State, on his second trip to the Coast.  This worthy pioneer couple were of the sort that have proved so valuable in settling, one after another, the American commonwealths.  They had four children, and Adelbert was the third in the order of birth.  The eldest, Clarence H. Schellenger, is at Capitola, in Santa Cruz County; Clara has become Mrs. Worden, and lives at Pacific Grove; and Frank, the youngest, is at Monterey.

Edmond Tift Schellenger settled at O’Banion Corners, in Sutter County, and there established a blacksmith shop, as he was a machinist and blacksmith by trade.  In 1885, however, he abandoned the forge and bought 160 acres about three miles east of Sutter City; and there he followed agriculture for the rest of his life, making an excellent showing, especially for a man of his age, and always enjoying the confidence and esteem of his neighbors.  He lived to be eighty; and his good wife, who was also the center of a circle of devoted friends, saw her eighty-fourth year before she breathed her last.

Adelbert Schellenger attended the O’Banion district school, and then went for a year to college at College City.  He also learned the blacksmith’s trade, before he was twenty, and worked in his father’s shop until it was sold.  Then he took up work on his father’s farm, and continued at it until he was twenty-two.  He next rented the ranch of 320 acres belonging to his uncle, S. A. Schellenger, about half a mile east of Sutter City, and for just a quarter of a century he ran that place, in the meantime becoming a thoroughly experienced rancher.  He then moved into Sutter City and acquired his present residence; and here he has lived since his retirement from active farming.  However, he still engages in harvesting in the summer time.

At O’Banion Corners, on March 11, 1890, Mr. Schellenger was married to Miss Ellen McVey, a native of that picturesque locality, and the daughter of Thomas and Nancy McVey.  Her father came to California in 1858, and settled in Sutter County; he mined for a while in Shasta County, and later farmed in Sutter County, in the vicinity of O’Banion Corners.  Eight children were born of this fortunate union.  Mabel is Mrs. Blackstone, of Bangor, Yuba [Butte] County; Bessie has become Mrs. Dale, of Modesto; A. E. Schellenger, Jr., is living at Sutter, as is also Nolan; Clara married Mr. Angelich, of San Francisco; and Clarence, Addison and Ansel are at home.  Mr. Schellenger has forty acres of the home place, where his sons, A. E., Jr. and Nolan, live today.  They both served in the 363^rd Infantry, 91^st Division, Nolan belonging to Company A., and A. E. to Headquarters Company, where he was a mounted orderly; and they both went to France, where Nolan was wounded.  He was shot in the hip, and the bullet still remains in his hip-bone.