YUBA COUNTY
Biographies
WILLIAM G. McROBERTS
Among the excellent ranch properties that surround Yuba City is the McRoberts ranch, embracing over 200 acres, known as the Briggs place, which Mrs. McRoberts inherited from her father, Dr. Jackson. William G. McRoberts has assumed the management of this extensive ranch property, and has set about to bring it back to its once high state of cultivation and restore the fine gardens and lawns; he is also rebuilding the house, and intends to make the ranch again a show place in the county.
William G. McRoberts was born March 16, 1869, at Danville, Ky., the youngest of six children in the family of Andrew and Kate (Robinson) McRoberts, also natives of Kentucky, who both passed away when our subject was eight years old. He was reared in the home of his uncle, Thomas McRoberts, a well-to-do rancher near Danville, and was given the opportunity of a good education, finishing the grammar and high school courses and then graduating from Centre College at Danville, with the class of 1886; and he also took a business course at Lexington, Ky. From 1888 to 1892 he was engaged as a bookkeeper with the Pittman Coal Company, at Pittsburg, Ky.
In 1892, at London, Ky., Mr. McRoberts was married to Miss Mollie Jackson, a native of Placer County, Cal., the eldest of four children born to Dr. G. H. and Elizabeth Jackson. Mrs. McRoberts is a graduate of Hesperian College, at Woodland, class of 1892. Following her graduation, she went East on a visit to relatives in London, Ky., where she met and married Mr. McRoberts. The following year Mr. McRoberts brought his bride to Woodland, Cal.; and for three years he was engaged with a wholesale store in San Francisco. In 1896 he located in Sutter County, where he became the owner of a one-third interest in a peach orchard near Yuba City, which he still owns. Mr. McRoberts is a Democrat, and has served three terms as chairman of the Sutter County Democratic Central Committee. Fraternally, he is a member of Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F. & A.M., Yuba City; Marysville Chapter No. 13, R.A.M., and Marysville Commandery No. 7, K.T.; and with his wife he belongs to Fidelia Chapter No. 5, O.E.S., Yuba City.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
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GEORGE T. BOYD
As the history of any country is written, we find that the men possessing clear foresight, and the wisdom to choose the right field of endeavor–the field for which they are by natural inclination, temperament, and personal gifts best fitted–and then to work that field with the best that is in them, are the men who succeed, and whose biographies are necessarily interwoven with the upbuilding of their communities. Among these men of constructive enterprise in Sutter County must be mentioned George T. Boyd. A native of the county, born in Yuba City, July 10, 1884, he is the son of C. R. and Clarinda Bliss (Carpenter) Boyd, also born in Sutter County, and descendants of old pioneer stock.
George T. Boyd received his early education in the public schools of Yuba City; and after finishing at the Marysville High School he studied for two years at the University of California. In 1906, he became associated with the Farmers’ Cooperative Union of Sutter County, the firm also carrying on a commercial banking business where he held the position of cashier. On the organization of the First National Bank of Yuba City in 1912, Mr. Boyd became vice-president and cashier, as well as cashier and secretary of the Savings Bank of Sutter County, organized simultaneously with the First National Bank; and since then he has been active in carrying on the affairs of the two institutions, whose operations are an important factor in the business and agricultural life of the county., In addition to his banking activities, he was an organizer and is a director and treasurer of the California Canning Peach Growers. He is a director of the Yuba County Chamber of Commerce, director and secretary of the Sutter Holding Company, and director and treasurer of the Boyd Farms Company. Keenly interested in civic affairs, he was a member of the board of trustees when Yuba City was incorporated, and has always been in the vanguard of all projects organized or promoted for the advancement of the city and the further development of the county’s resources, being known alike for the breadth of his interests and for his disinterested devotion to worthy causes.
The marriage of Mr. Boyd, which occurred in Marysville on January 1, 1907, united him with Miss Ada Tapley, a native of Marysville, and a daughter of Dr. J. F. Tapley, a prominent physician of Marysville. Two children have blessed their union, Gordon and George. Prominent fraternally, Mr. Boyd is a member of Marysville Lodge, No. 783, B.P.O.E., and of the Woodmen of the World, and belongs to various branches of Masonry, being a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 70, F. & A.M.; Washington Chapter, No. 13, R.A.M.; Marysville Commandery, No. 7, K.T.; and Marysville Pyramid, No. 23, A.E.O. Sciots; and a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., Sacramento. Formerly he was a member of Islam Temple in San Francisco.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 623
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