Yuba County
Biographies
DENNIS D. CURRAN
The law of compensation holds good throughout the world. Industry and persistency of purpose succeed when intelligently directed, while integrity of character commands uniform respect. Both of these Dennis D. Curran has won and his present period of leisure is well deserved. For many years he engaged in ranching and mining and is now living retired in Timbuctoo, his native town where he was born on July 12, 1860. His parents Mack and Susan (Havey) Curran, were natives of County Kildare, Ireland. They emigrated to the United States, and in 1850 the father came to California, locating at Cape Horn, on the Yuba River, where he conducted a hotel for a time. He afterward followed mining and always lived in the vicinity of Timbuctoo. He was fifty years old at the time of his demise and his wife died at about the same age.
Dennis D. Curran is the only surviving member of a family of three children. He attended the grammar schools of Smartsville until he reached the age of twelve, then his father died and it became necessary for him to become self-supporting. His first job consisted of packing drinking water to the miners, and, on reaching mature years, he worked as a rancher, later turned his attention to mining. He knows “pay dirt” when he sees it and his operations in this field were rewarded by that success which is the legitimate outcome of a thorough understanding of his occupation and tireless effort. He also practiced thrift, and having accumulated a substantial competence, he is now enabled to rest from further toil.
Mr. Curran is a Catholic in religious faith and is connected with the Knights of Columbus at Marysville, while in politics he is a Democrat. His entire life, covering a period of sixty-four years, has been spent in Yuba County, of whose history he has an intimate knowledge, and in the progress and development of which he has borne an active, honorable part.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
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