YUBA COUNTY Biographies
C. J. HENRY MINDEN
The birth of C. J. Henry Minden occurred on his parents’ ranch one mile southeast of Nicolaus, on March 31, 1872, the second eldest of six children in the family of Herman and Wibka (Dickmann) Minden. Herman Minden was born in Germany in 1830, and on April 17, 1869, he was married to Miss Dickmann, also a native of Germany, born in 1850. Herman Minden came to the United States in 1854 and settled in Wisconsin; later he removed to Louisiana. In 1856 he came via Panama to California and settled near Nicolaus and bought 320 acres of land which he farmed to grain the balance of his lifetime. He served ten years as levee director of District No. 2. He passed away in 1881, survived by his widow and four sons and two daughters. The mother of our subject resided on the home place until her death on March 17, 1917.
C. J. Henry Minden finished the grammar school course at the old Nicolaus school. The Minden brothers conducted the home ranch for their mother, raising grain, but later ran a dairy for fifteen years. Recently they sold the dairy stock to good advantage. The home place is now jointly owned and operated by our subject and his brother August Edward Minden.
On June 15, 1920, in Sacramento, Mr. Minden was married to Mrs. Mary Madeline (Hupp) Martin, native of Butte County, and daughter of John Hupp and Rosanna (Woolever) Hupp, natives of Virginia and Canada, respectively. John Hupp came to California when he was nineteen years old and operated a sawmill in the mountains of Butte County; he brought the machinery for his first sawmill when he came in 1849, via Cape Horn to California. Mrs. Minden has one son by her former marriage, Charles Edgar Martin. He served in the U. S. Mail department of the A. E. F. for eight months and received his discharge with rank of sergeant; he is married and resides at Chico. C. J. Henry Minden served for ten years as director of Levee District No. 2.
August Edward Minden was born on the old Herman Minden homestead on August 6, 1876. He attended the public school in Nicolaus, after which he joined his brothers in the care of the home place. Gus Minden, as he is familiarly called by his many friends, is a member of Pleasant Grove Lodge No. 269, I.O.O.F. Politically the family are all Republican.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1136
GEORGE MURRAY URY
A native son of Sutter County is George Murray Ury, whose birth occurred three miles southwest of O’Banion Corners September 28, 1871, a son of John and Elsie (Murray) Ury. John Ury was born in Illinois in 1827, and there lived until 1846, when he removed to Missouri and farmed for four years; then he returned to his old home in Illinois. In 1854 he began the journey across the plains to California with an ox team, the journey consuming six months; upon his arrival he settled in Sutter County and farmed for five years. He again returned to Illinois and resided there for one year, then in 1860 he returned West and prospected in Nevada for a year, and then spent a year in Arizona. Coming to California, he farmed in Colusa County for three years; then settled in Sutter County where he purchased 160 acres of land fourteen miles southwest of Yuba City. In 1869 John Ury was married to Miss Elsie Murray, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, who had come to California in 1864. John Ury passed away at the age of eighty years and his wife died in 1922, aged eighty years. Two children were born to this pioneer couple, Mary J. and George Murray, the subject of this sketch, who make their home together on the old home place, which is intact with the exception of fourteen acres which has been sold. Mr. Ury is a Republican in politics.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1150
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