Yuba County
Biographies
GEORGE WASHINGTON CURRY
One of the interesting and worthy native sons of California is George Washington Curry, who was born on January 27, 1865, about half way between Roseville and Elverta on Dry Creek, Sacramento County, Cal., a son of Daniel and Emily (Barnes) Curry, natives of Terre Haute, Ind., and Kentucky, respectively. Daniel Curry migrated from Indiana to Missouri, where he was married to Miss Barnes, who had come from Kentucky with her parents. In 1851 the young couple crossed the plains to California in an ox-team train. Soon after his arrival he began keeping the hotel called the Seventeen Mile House, which was situated on the Sacramento-Nevada stage road. Later Daniel Curry engaged in farming and stock-raising at Pleasant Grove, Sutter County, where he resided until he passed away at the age of eighty-five years and one month. Mrs. Curry passed away in Sutter County when she was seventy-two years old. This worthy pioneer couple were the parents of ten children: Louisa, Elizabeth and Edward, all deceased; Sarah M., Mrs. Clark of Hanford; Daniel B.; George Washington, the subject of this sketch; Isabelle, Mrs. Bishop, of Richmond; W.S., of Willows, Glenn County; Robert Lee, deceased; and Mrs. Lilly Kimball, deceased.
George Washington Curry was reared and educated at Pleasant Grove, where he attended the Grammar School. He and his brother Daniel ran the home farm and leased 600 acres of land which he devoted to grain. Mr. Curry came to the West Bear River Township, Yuba County, and raised beans and stock for many years. He then purchased twenty acres eight miles south of Marysville in the Arboga Colony, which he devoted to peaches. This orchard is irrigated by a four inch electric pump. In national politics, Mr. Curry is a Democrat.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1140
ARTHUR FRANCIS NUTT
A decidedly progressive and self-made citizen of Arboga, Arthur Francis Nutt was born near Wheatland, Yuba County, Cal., March 2, 1886, a son of Samuel Doty and Harriet Augusta (Wilbur) Nutt, natives of New Jersey and New York respectively. His parents’ biography is detailed on another page of this history. Arthur Francis Nutt attended the public school in the Ella district. He began working as a ranch hand when he was fifteen years old, continuing for twelve years, when he leased about 900 acres of land which he devotes to grain; he now has a sixty-horse-power Holt tractor and a complete line of tractor farm machinery and also does contracting for tractor work.
On June 12, 1910, at Sacramento, Arthur Francis Nutt was united in marriage with Miss Mamie Kuster, whose parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Kuster. Mr. and Mrs. Nutt have had five children: Myrtle E., Frances M., Nadine O., Minnie, and Willard A. Mr. Nutt is a Republican. He owes his success to his own well directed efforts, and through his energy and persistency of purpose he has gained a comfortable competence.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1140