YUBA COUNTY Biographies
WILLIAM POTTS
Success has followed the well directed efforts of William Potts since his arrival in California in 1879 and he is now the owner of twenty acres of land located six miles south of Yuba City; ten acres of this ranch has been developed to wine grapes and Muir peaches and the balance is in grain and hay. William Potts was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and in 1875 left his native land for America, arriving in New York. After four years of hard work he had saved enough to get to California. For six years he was employed on the Henry Heiken ranch. In 1888, Mr. Potts visited his old home in Ireland, where he spent four months enjoyably. He is the next to the youngest of a family of eight children born to Fred and Mary Ann (Ormsby) Potts and he and his brother Fred, who still resides in Ireland, are the only survivors. Mr. Potts became an American citizen in 1879 and has since cast his vote as a Democrat.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1267
EVERETT WHEATON LUTHER
A native son of Sutter County is Everett Wheaton Luther, who was born in Live Oak, Sutter County, December 2, 1868, a son of Hezekiah and Laura (Drew) Luther, natives of Massachusetts and Iowa, respectively. Mr. Luther, Sr., came to California when he was twelve years old, in a sailing vessel around the Horn. After working in the mines for a while he engaged in farming at Live Oak, and then purchased 360 acres adjoining Live Oak on the west. He married Miss Laura Drew, a native of Iowa; she came to California in the early days with her parents and crossed the plains by ox-team. Mr. and Mrs. Hezekiah Luther became the parents of eight children, three of whom are living at present: Everett Wheaton, the subject of this sketch; John Francis; and Mrs. May Pierce, both of Live Oak. Hezekiah Luther lived to be eighty-three years old and his wife passed away when she was sixty-eight.
Everett Wheaton Luther attended the public school at Live Oak, and when he was nineteen years old he started out for himself, working as a ranch hand. He went to Franklin district about 1911, and purchased 160 acres of land of the Jack Simpson ranch one mile south of the Franklin school, which has been devoted to grain. He has witnessed the steady growth and improvement in Sutter County, and now, in the evening of his days, with his good wife by his side, and surrounded by his children, he enjoys life to its full, a well-deserved reward for his busy years. He is a Republican in his political views, and appreciates the value of giving his support to the best men and measures proposed for his community and country.
On March 6, 1895, at Yuba City, Everett Wheaton Luther was married to Miss Lutetia Simpson. She was born on the same ranch where they now reside, a daughter of Jack and Canzata Simpson, one of the thirteen children born to this couple. Mr. and Mrs. Luther have been blessed with four children: Charles, at Franklin; Gladys, Mrs. E. G. Harris; Lloyd; and Edwin, at home.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1267
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