YUBA COUNTY Biographies
LEE H. BISSETT
A prominent and influential figure in the Yuba County educational world is Lee H. Bissett, vice-principal and physical director of the noted high school at Marysville. He was born at Deep River, Iowa, on March 24, 1896, and he was reared on the home farm until he was ten years of age. In 1906, the family came West to Oregon, and at Newberg, Yamhill County, his father engaged in the making of brick. He was always recognized as a sturdy and most worthy pioneer, and no one enjoyed more esteem in her day than the equally faithful Mrs. Bissett.
Lee went to both the grammar and the high schools of Newberg, and then he took up the agricultural course at the Oregon Agricultural College, from which he was duly graduated with the Class of 1918. While there, he was particularly active in all branches of athletics, and was captain of the foot-ball team in 1916, and two years later captain of the basket-ball team; and he was also captain of the College Cadet Corps. In the Spring of 1918, he went into the Officers’ training camp at Camp Fort Monroe, Virginia, and was later assigned to the heavy artillery; and having done what he could patriotically to stand by his country in the hour of her crisis, he was discharged from the service in the Spring of 1919.
In the Fall of that year, he accepted his present position at the Marysville High School, and although athletics was a minor factor there before he came, he has succeeded, despite the brief period, in bringing up the standard of the school in sports and athletics to a much more complimentary degree. He has organized basket-ball and foot-ball and track teams, and his efforts have been responded to by the student body in a highly creditable manner. He is a member of the local basket-ball team in Marysville known as the Powell Brothers Team, now the American League Team, and he is also the team’s coach. This team has a fine record in the State, having thus far won ninety per cent of the games, being twenty out of the twenty-three games the first year, eleven out of the fourteen games the second year. Already this splendid athletic drilling and supervision by Professor Bissett is widely recognized, and has done much to raise the status of the Marysville High School; and more and more, in the years to come, will the lasting benefits of his unselfish service be appreciated.
At Newberg, Ore., in the year 1918, Mr. Bissett was married to Miss Huldah Gulbert, a gifted lady of Quaker stock, and a native of Morrisville, Ind. She is secretary of the Rebekahs, and of the Woman’s Athletic Association, of the American Legion; and she is a member of the Marysville Art Club, and also of the Civic Improvement Club, and is the physical director of the Woman’s Athletic Club. Mr. Bissett belongs to the Masons, the Lions Club of Marysville, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Yuba-Sutter Post of the American Legion.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1257-1258
ARTHUR BAILEY
A worthy representative of western energy and progress is found in Arthur Bailey, whose home place consists of 160 acres devoted to fruit and grain-raising. He was born on the old Bailey home place near O’Banion Corners, January 10, 1875, the youngest son of George W. and Mary E. (O’Banion) Bailey, both natives of Kentucky. George W. Bailey spent most of his life on a farm in Missouri. In October, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, serving as a pilot under General Fremont for three months. After the expiration of the term of his enlistment, he returned to the home farm, where he remained until 1864, when he came West to California. His first purchase of land consisted of 160 acres in Sutter County and he subsequently added by purchase 480 acres; this ranch he improved with three residences, one occupied by his family and the other two by two of his sons, who assisted with the farm work. In 1865, Mr. Bailey married Miss Mary E. O’Banion and they became the parents of four children: Luella, Marcellus C., Walter E. (deceased) and Arthur. George W. Bailey was a steadfast Republican and filled the office of supervisor of Sutter County from 1884 to 1886; he also served as school trustee for a number of terms. Fraternally he belonged to Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F.&A.M. of Yuba City.
Arthur Bailey received his education in the Gaither district school and was associated with his parents on the home place until 1912, when the home ranch was divided and he received as his portion 160 acres, which is devoted to a prune orchard and to grain-raising.
On March 31, 1906, at San Francisco, Mr. Bailey was married to Miss Lucile Nagle, a native of Oakland, Cal, daughter of Henry and Martha (Weeks) Nagle. Henry Nagle settled in Oakland in an early day and engaged in the real estate and insurance business for many years. They were the parents of three children: Ethel, Lucile (Mrs. Bailey), and Florence, twins. Mrs. Bailey received her education in the Oakland schools. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are the parents of three children, Dorothy, Mary Elizabeth and George. Politically, Mr. Bailey is a Republican and fraternally belongs to Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F.&A.M., Yuba City and Marysville Pyramid No. 23, A.E.O. Sciots.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1258
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