YUBA COUNTY
Biographies
MRS. IDA E. SANDERS PEASE BERRY
A native daughter who is intensely interested in the preservation of pioneer history and early-day incidents, as well as the pioneer landmarks in her native State, is Mrs. Ida E. Berry, a daughter of the late William Sanders and his wife, Matilda A. (Longcor) Sanders. Her father was one of the most prominent ranchers and financiers of his day in Sutter County, and was a very wealthy man at the time of his death, which came on January 8, 1905. Her mother is still living, the center of a large circle of devoted friends.
Ida E. Sanders was born and reared on the William Sanders ranch in Sutter County, where she enjoyed the freedom of the great out-of-doors, becoming proficient in the saddle, and holding the ribbons over a span of fine roadsters. Soon after completing the public school in the Live Oak (now the Encinal) district, she was married in 1891, at the home of her parents, being there united with Mark Pease, who came to California with his parents when ten years of age and was reared in Sutter County. Immediately after their marriage, they began the development of a 190-acre ranch, setting it all out to vineyard and orchard. Later on, they purchased the Grove ranch, which they also set to vineyard, thus becoming large producers of Thompson Seedless grapes, which were disposed of either as table grapes or as raisins.
Becoming estranged, Mr. and Mrs. Pease were divorced, and she retained the home ranch, which she operated successfully until she disposed of it to advantage and removed to Oakland, where she purchased and still owns valuable residence property on Forty-second Street, between Broadway and Shafter. She is now Mrs. Berry. Having a longing for her native county, she returned hither and now makes her home in Yuba City, where Ralph Pease, her youngest son, who is still single, lives with her. She has three stalwart sons of whom she may well be proud. All are musical, and are very popular in the community. Leroy Pease is a rancher and fruit-grower at Pease Station; he is married and has two sons. Mark Pease, Jr., is a viticulturist and resides at Tierra Buena; he is also married and has a daughter. Ralph Pease served in the army during the World War. Entering the Aviation Section, he was sent over seas, and was a bugler until he was transferred to the Engineers Band as cornetist. He served in that capacity until after the armistice, when he returned home and was honorably discharged. He again enlisted, this time as a member of the Native Sons Band on the U.S.S. California, where he played baritone cornet with marked ability for two years, after which he was mustered out and returned again to Yuba City.
Mrs. Berry is a woman of much business ability and enterprise. She is deeply interested in the growth and improvement of Sutter County, and takes just pride of the part her parents, as well as the Pease family, have taken in its development.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 783
OTTO B. FORDERHASE
Another successful rancher whose experience has proven as valuable to his contemporaries as his results have been of worth to the cause of agricultural progress in Sutter County, is Otto B. Forderhase, who lives about eight miles north of Sutter City. He was born in Warren County, Mo., on December 22, 1876, the son of W. H. and Louisa (Wisbrock) Forderhase, both natives of the Iron State. Otto B. Forderhase came out to California with his parents in 1888 and settled at Sutter, where W. H. Forderhase was a farmer. The latter died at the age of seventy-nine, while the mother reached her sixty-eighth year; both were greatly esteemed for their sterling worth as sturdy settlers and patriotic Americans. Eight children were born to this worthy couple, and Otto B. was the fifth in the order of birth. Those older were Emma, George, Edward, and Florence, and those younger, William Cornelia, and Frank.
Otto Forderhase attended the Sutter City Grammar School. When only a lad, he started to do for himself, working as a ranch-hand. In 1911 he bought his present ranch, comprising 340 acres, snugly located in a cove in the Sutter Buttes, overshadowed by the majestic North Butte, which lies to the southwest; and here he built a beautiful country residence in 1914. He is mainly engaged in sheep-raising, keeping a band of about 1000.
At Sutter, on October 12, 1904, Mr. Forderhase was married to Miss Ada Humphrey, who was born near Yuba City, the daughter of W. H. and Nettie Humphrey, and was reared and educated in Sutter County. Mr. Forderhase belongs to the North Butte Lodge, I.O.O.F., of Live Oak, and he and his wife are members of the Rebekahs of the same place. In politics he is a Republican. Sutter County is proud of such progressiveness as Mr. and Mrs. Forderhase, who are ever ready to co-operate in any sensible movement making for the day when California, as the Golden State, shall more fully come to its own.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 785
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