Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

CLARENCE M. ALEXANDER

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Wheatland, that claims the birth, on October 6, 1890, of Clarence M. Alexander, 
is worthily represented today by that enterprising and successful rancher who 
lives on his ranch of 675 acres some seven miles to the northeast of that town.  
He is the son of William Allen and Mary (Melton) Alexander, natives respectively 
of Missouri and Iowa, and his father came to California about thirty-seven years 
ago.  Here, too, he married, and was a teamster and ranch-hand for some years, 
and for a while also had a small ranch.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are still 
living at Wheatland, enjoying the esteem and the good-will of all who know them. 
 Another son, Claude W., lives near them.
Clarence Alexander attended the Wheatland Grammar School, and the Wheatland High 
School.  At the age of twenty-one he started out for himself, first working in a 
store, where he learned a good deal about human nature; and then he studied 
Nature herself in the work of ranching.  In 1917, he moved onto his present 
ranch home, where he engaged in raising grain and stock.  He is a Democrat, but 
is an enthusiastic non-partisan �booster� for the locality to which he is 
naturally devoted.
At Marysville, on November 25, 1914, Mr. Alexander was married to Miss Susie M. 
Hutchinson, who was born at the old Hutchinson place seven miles north of 
Wheatland, the daughter of P. L. and Susie M. (Kuster) Hutchinson.  Mr. 
Alexander is a member of Sutter Lodge No. 100, I.O.O.F., of Wheatland, and is a 
Past Grand of the lodge there.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Alexander are deservedly 
popular, standing as they do for the better things in life, and first, last and 
all the time for the Golden State and its unrivaled Yuba County.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1226