Yuba County
Biographies
PETER PETERSON
An energetic and capable business man of Camptonville is Peter Peterson, who since 1896 has conducted a meat market and has recently built up a good business throughout the mountain section of Yuba County. He was born at Indian Hill, Sierra County, March 18, 1865, the only son of three children in the family of Jacob C. Peterson, a native of Denmark. Jacob C. Peterson left home at an early age to follow a sailor’s life, and for many years was thus engaged. In the fifties he came to California and worked in the mines of Placer and Nevada Counties. He passed away at Camptonville at the age of seventy-six, survived by his widow and one step-daughter, Mrs. J. R. Meek, and by a daughter and son, Mrs. Alice Martin and Peter Peterson, of this review.
Peter Peterson attended public school at Camptonville. After completing his schooling, he drove a pack-train from Camptonville to Brandy City for the Meek Mercantile Company for eight years, after which he engaged in buying and selling live stock and learned the butcher business.
The marriage of Mr. Peterson united him with Mrs. Grace (Phillips) Houghhaker, a daughter of William Phillips, pioneer miner.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 915-916
WYLO J. ARNOLD
Marysville has long been noted for its enterprising and highly progressive commercial establishments, such as that of the J. C. Penney Company, one of the city’s leading mercantile firms, whose capable local manager is Wylo J. Arnold, a native of Salt Lake City, where he was born on November 17, 1893. His parents were J. W. and Christina (Clark) Arnold, also natives of Utah, where they were highly esteemed pioneers.
Wylo J. Arnold attended the Utah schools, and in 1912 entered the service of the J. C. Penney Company at Murray, Utah, later continuing in their service at Chehalis, Wash.; Preston, Idaho; and Chico, Cal., successively. Having made good with an exceptional record in each of these various branches of the flourishing company, he was appointed, in 1920, manager of the Marysville store. Mr. Arnold has always been a student of human nature, and also had come to have a fair acquaintance with Californian life and ways; and having, from the beginning, sought to identify himself with the Marysville community, he found it easy to command the hearty cooperation of the townspeople here, and to build up a growing and dependable patronage for his firm. The J. C. Penney Company is today one of the acknowledged pillars in the business life of Marysville, and Mr. Arnold has become one of the untiring workers for the permanent progress of both town and county.
At Preston, Idaho, in 1916, Mr. Arnold was married to Miss Angeline Porter, a native of Idaho; and their union has been blessed with the birth of two children, Max and Dot. Fraternally, Mr. Arnold is a member of Chico Lodge No. 111, F. & A.M., and Marysville Pyramid No. 23, A.E.O. Sciots; and with his wife is a member of Marysville Chapter No. 55, O.E.S.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 921