YUBA COUNTY
Biographies
EDWIN WINSHIP
Since starting out in life on his own account, Edwin Winship has been steadily advancing along the road of prosperity, and for the past quarter of a century has devoted his time and energy to fruit-raising in Sutter County. His home place, consisting of twenty acres adjacent to Yuba City, has been planted to almonds, peaches and prunes, and has been brought to a high state of cultivation. A native son of Sutter County, Edwin Winship was born March 26, 1858, the third eldest of six children of the late I. A. Winship, a native of Boston, Mass. Edwin Winship attended the Winship district school, and while still in his teens started out for himself, renting land and raising wheat. He owned one of the first combined harvesters in the valley during the early eighties, which brought him good returns for his labor. He followed grain-raising until he sold his equipment and settled near Yuba City, in 1898, where he bought his present home place.
The marriage of Mr. Winship united him with Miss Marie Schillig, also a native of Sutter County, born at Nicolaus, a daughter of the late pioneer, Paul Schillig. Mr. and Mrs. Winship are the parents of five children. Elmer Herbert resides in the Linda Township of Yuba County. Edna L. is now the wife of Mr. Wiseman; they have one daughter and reside in Marysville. Norma is now Mrs. R. N. Kells. E. G. is an ex-service man and an orchardist; he is married and has one daughter. Lawrence A. is employed in the First National Bank of Yuba City. For sixteen years, Mr. Winship was road-master in the Winship district of Sutter County. Fraternally, he is a past officer of the Yuba City Camp, W. O. W., of which he has been a member for twenty years.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 588
MARVIN E. and CALVIN SYLVESTER WISNER
Among the native-born sons of California, two worthy representatives of the Wisner family are Marvin E., who was born in Butte County, November 17, 1884, and Calvin Sylvester Wisner, who was born at West Butte, Sutter County, August 10, 1887, sons of Allen and Olivia Priscilla (Stevenson) Wisner, natives of Ohio and California, respectively. Grandfather Stevenson came to California in 1850, and his family came in 1852. They settled in Ousley Bar, Yuba County, where grandfather Stevenson mined until 1854. They then settled at West Butte, where he remained until his death. During his time, he acquired about 1000 acres of land; and he had a family of thirteen children. Allen Wisner was married in the Golden State to Olivia Priscilla Stevenson, who was born at Ousely Bar. They were the parents of eight children: Jessie, who died when a child; Viola, Mrs. W. W. Elkins of Reno, Nev.; Oliver, at Marysville; Harvey, at Live Oak; Marvin E. and Calvin Sylvester; Iva, now Mrs. H. C. Williams of Sutter; and Everett, who was killed during the late World War. Everett Wisner entered the service of his country in September, 1917, and trained at Camp Lewis for three weeks. He then transferred to Long Island, and was thence transported to France. He was placed in Company B, 18th Infantry, 1st Division; and on July 18, 1918, he was killed at Soissons, France, during active service. Allen Wisner moved to Sutter County and located on the west side of the Buttes, seven miles northeast of West Butte, where he acquired a quarter-section of land. Grandfather Stevenson also located there and acquired two sections of range and farm land. All the Wisner children attended the Noyes district school.
When he was a young man, Calvin Sylvester Wisner started out for himself, doing all kinds of shop work and working as a ranch hand. With his brother, Marvin E., he purchased the business of Antone Vagedes, in Sutter City, in 1921; and together they operated and conducted a substantial grocery business, serving also lunches and other refreshments. In the summer of 1923, Marvin E. Wisner became sole proprietor of the business at Sutter City, and Calvin Sylvester Wisner then went to Oakland, Cal., in order to further perfect himself as an auto-mechanic. He is at present attending an auto-electric school at Oakland, and intends to make auto-electric work his future business. He is a veteran of the World War. Being a machinist, he enlisted as a mechanic in the aviation service, and put in eighteen months in his country’s service. The greater part of this time was spent in France, where he did efficient duty as propeller man.
Marvin E. Wisner, who was born November 17, 1884, in Yuba [?] County, also started out for himself when he was a young man. He homesteaded 142 acres in the West Butte country and purchased 131 acres adjoining it, which he leases out at the present time.
On June 16, 1917, Marvin E. Wisner was united in marriage with Josephine Jensen, who was born in Los Banos, Cal., a daughter of John T. and Josephine Jensen. Her father is a rancher at Tierra Buena, Sutter County, where she was reared and educated. Marvin E. Wisner and his wife have been blessed with two children, Allen and Edith.
The Wisner family is prominent in the pioneer history of Sutter County; and the present generation of Wisners, to which Marvin E. and Calvin Sylvester belong, worthily represent their pioneer ancestors and are bringing to fruition the plans they originated. Both Calvin and Marvin Wisner are stanch Republicans. Both are also members of the Woodmen of the World at Yuba City.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 589-590
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