HARRY A. BURCH

Prominent among the most enterprising and successful of merchants in Marysville, is Harry A. Burch, the well-known and popular dealer in feed and produce.  A native son, he was born on a farm at West Butte, in Sutter County, on September 29, 1887, the son of Charles W. and Amelia (Stevenson) Burch, the former a pioneer who had come to California six years before.  He located in Sutter County, and there he and Miss Stevenson, also a native of the State, were married.  Mr. Burch passed away in 1909, esteemed by all who knew him.  Mrs. Burch is now a resident of Yuba City, the center of a circle of devoted friends.

Harry Burch went to the grammar school and then attended Marysville High School, from which he was duly graduated in 1906.  He next successfully pursued the courses at the Chico State Normal School, graduating in 1908 and receiving a teacher’s certificate.  He taught school for about thirteen years, beginning at Leesville and becoming superintendent of schools at Loyalton, Lincoln, Roseville, Gridley and Dunsmuir.  While teaching, he was a member of the board of education of Sierra County for two years and of Placer County for four years.  He was also in the produce business at Dunsmuir for three years, while he was in school work.  For the last two seasons, he has been shipping fruit and produce, feed and fuel, poultry and eggs, and hay and grain; and in February, 1923, he opened his warehouse here, which he has operated with success.  In politics a Republican, Mr. Burch has always sought to evidence his broad-mindedness by thinking and acting for himself at elections, and by supporting in a non-partisan manner the men and measures that seem best suited for the service of the public.

At San Jose, in 1912, Mr. Burch was married to Miss Marguerite Hawn, a gifted and charming native daughter, who was born at Hollister.  Two children, Evelyn and Helen, have blessed the union.  Mr. Burch is a “home man,” and with his family is fond of the great outdoors.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924

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ANDREW KELLER BOSARD

An enterprising, thoroughly progressive business man, who well merits his prosperity, is Andrew Keller Bosard, the agent of the popular Willys-Knight and Overland cars, at Marysville.  He was born at Osceola, Pa., July 20, 1878, the son of Jerome L. and Alice (Smith) Bosard, the former a pioneer who elected to migrate to Dakota in early days, and came to have extensive interests in both the Dakotas and in Pennsylvania.  An uncle of our subject, J. H. Bosard, was the first Governor of the Dakotas, when they were yet a territory.  The Bosards came from an old Huguenot family, members of which fought in the War of the Revolution.  Johann Phillip Bossartte left Normandy, France, in the time of Louis XIV, at the time of the Protestant uprising, and settled where Bosardsville now is, four miles from the Delaware Water Gap.

Andrew Bosard attended both the grammar and the high school, and then went to Cornell University, leaving there to go to the University of North Dakota, where he was given the A.B. degree in 1903.  He then became a traveling salesman, continuing in that line of work until 1912, when he engaged in the automobile business in San Francisco, coming to Marysville in 1917.  From the time of his arrival here, he has been a live wire, promoting motor interests; and since 1921 he has had the agency of the above-named cars for Sutter and Yuba Counties.  The many cars of these types in use in this section are some index to what his unremitting energy has accomplished.

Mr. Bosard is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, and belongs to the Sciots; and he is also a member of the Eastern Star.  In politics, he is a Republican.  He is keenly interested in the future of both Yuba and Sutter Counties.