YUBA COUNTY Biographies
JESSE C. HARRIS
The name of Harris is known throughout California in connection with the saddlery trade, which for three generations has been carried on by members of the family, and which business is now under the capable management of Jesse C. Harris. He was born in Marysville and has here spent his entire life. His parents were Allen Leslie and Etta (Barkman) Harris, and they, too, were both born in California, the mother being born in Sutter County. The paternal grandfather came from Indiana to California, crossing the great plains in the days of gold, and located in Marysville. He was the founder of the business of saddle-making, and after his death, in 1898, it was continued by Allen Leslie Harris and J. C. Baldwin, under a partnership arrangement. The death of A. L. Harris, who had been actively engaged in the business, on August 8, 1917, left the son, Jesse C. Harris, to carry on the work.
After completing the public school course, Jesse C. Harris served as an apprentice to learn saddle-making. When his father died he took over his interest in the concern and has since been actively engaged in promoting the business and is meeting with success. Until June, 1923, the business had always been conducted under the name of the H. M. Harris Saddlery Company, that firm being one of the oldest in the State. On the above mentioned date the name of the firm was changed to Harris & Baldwin, but it continues in the old location. They keep abreast of the times and anticipate the wants of their customers, and they specialize in a full line of sporting goods and hardware. The old-time tradition of reliability and satisfaction is maintained by the partners, who never deviate from the solid basis upon which the business was founded.
Jesse Harris was united in marriage with Miss Mattie A. Proper, born in Sutter County, and they have one son, Allen Proper Harris. Mr. Harris is a Republican and is ever ready to boost for his section of the State.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 945-946
JOHN CHRISTIAN ANDREASON, SR.
The well-known pioneer, miner and lumberman, John Christian Andreason, lived an active and useful life, and attained the age of almost ninety-three years. He was born at Frederickshavn, Denmark, March 24, 1828, and died at Stockton, Cal., March 19, 1921. He was a man most highly respected, and will long be remembered as one of the early residents of Marysville, and one of the first placer miners on the Yuba River, where he started mining in April, 1852. In early life he became a seafaring man, and he had already circumnavigated the globe three times when, in 1851, he sailed in for the first time through the Golden Gate, to San Francisco, being then the first mate on a German steamship. He had read of Marshall’s gold discovery in 1848, and resolved to seek his fortune in the new El Dorado. He was filling the position of boatman for the Marine Hospital at San Francisco in 1851 when gold was first discovered on the Yuba River, whither he went in the early part of 1852, and engaged in placer mining until 1861. From 1861 to 1866 he followed sawmilling and lumbering on the Cosumnes River in Eldorado County. He then went back to mining until 1885, and after that followed farming and mining for many years. He owned and operated five or six mines located upon his 160 acres at Indian Diggings, in Eldorado County, from which thousands of dollars of gold were taken, and which he continued to operated until about eight years before his death. This mining property is still held by his widow, and will no doubt again become a paying proposition, as soon as the necessary tunnels for carrying off the underground water currents can be constructed.
John Christian Andreason married Miss Laurentine H. Jensen, also born in Denmark, the marriage occurring at Sacramento in 1875. They became the parents of ten children, eight of whom grew up and are living: Anna, Mrs. Ed Warner of Stockton; Gretta, Mrs. Ed Liddicoat of Stockton; John Christian Jr., inventor and manufacturer of Marysville, whose biography appears elsewhere in this work; Harold, mechanic in the employ of the Harris Manufacturing Company at Stockton; Rosa, Mrs. C. A. Burrows of Stockton; Minnie, Mrs. E. C. Sexton of Stockton; Frank, machinist and carpenter at Stockton; and Alex, a carpenter and builder at Big Rapids, Mich. In politics Mr. Andreason was a Republican; and in religion he was a Protestant. His widow makes her residence at Stockton, and is now seventy-six years old.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 959
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