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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA. 623
furnia, in 1879, to Miss Dora Bechmann, a
native of Germany. Six children have been
born of this union: Anna, Harry J., Tena,
Lewis, Willie and Dora.
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ARNEY MARHART, a rancher of Butte
8 County, is a son of Hinman and Ollite
(Haling) Marhart, natives of Germany;
the father died in 1844, and the mother in
1845. Our present subject was born also in
Germany, July 4, 1836, and came to the United
States in 1854; and four years afterward came
on to California by water, landing at San Francisco. In a few days he proceeded to Oroville
and engaged in mining for his brother. The
place he now occupies, of 800 acres, he purchased in 1877; and he also has a tract of
4,000 ‘acres west of Biggs in Butte County.
Grain and live-stock are his specialties.
In 1869 he married Ellen Sweeter, a native
ot Germany, who died April 4, 1880. In 1885 .
he married Miss Maggie Peeler, in the Catholic
Church at Marysville, and their four chiltren
are: Barney, Emma, Dora and John.
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JRA RTIN DESCH, a prosperous and
a well-known farmer and stock-raiser of
Yuba County, merits biographical mention in this history. His ranch consists of 860
acres of productive land, and neither labor nor
money have been spared in improving and
beautifying it. Some of this land is situated in
the Feather River bottoms, and finer pastures
ean be found nowhere. His chief products are
grain and stock. In 1890 Mr. Desch erected
one of the most handsome residences in Yuba
County. Altogether he has expended upon this
property about $6,000.
Mr. Desch was born in New York, January
13, 1837, the son of Martin and Sarah (Jacobs)
Desch, the former a native of Germany and the
latter of France. His father died in New York
in 1887, and his mother, at the same place, in
1889. He was educated in his native State,
and remained there until 1860, when he set out
for California, expecting to make this his home,
and, if possible, secure for himself a competency.
He came direct to Marysville, and has since resided in this locality. How well he has succeeded in his undertaking may be understood
by a visit to-his beautiful and attractive home
and a survey of his broad acres, his fields of
waving grain and his rich pastures dotted over
. with fine stock. This home is located on the
Nevada road and is ten miles and a half from
Marysville.
Mr. Desch married a native of Germany,
Miss Amelia Steelmaker, and by her has five
children, namely: Albert, Josephine, Andrew,
Bertha and Martin.
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A L. and C. W. THRESHER.—Among
the thriving and well-to-do farmers of
® Butte and Yuba County are found the
names of Prescott B., Columbus W., George and
Albert L. Thresher, all natives ot the Golden
State, and born in Butte County, except Prescott, who is a native of Ohio. Their parents,
Stephen B. and Columbia (Caldwell) Thresher, —
the former a native of New Hampshire and the
latter of Vermont,—came from their Eastern
home in the pioneer days of this country, and
were among the prominent settlers of Butte
County. The father was a machinist and a
carpenter by trade, but engaged in farming
after coming to California. They both died on
the old home place in Butte County, each
having reached the age of fifty-two years. The
old home place is now owned and condneted by
Prescott and George Thresher.
A. L. Thresher received his education in
Butte County, and came to Yuba County in
1888. A year previous to that time he purchased his present ranch, which consists of 364
acres; but as it was then leased he did not take
pesssession until 1888. The principal products