Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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ALBERT PIKE BAINBRIDGE
 
            The fertile environment of Rackerby is industriously tilled by men 
who have known how to utilize to the utmost the latent qualities of the soil, 
and to make of the locality a garden spot; and of these none have applied 
themselves with more diligence to the development of the resources at hand than 
Albert Pike Bainbridge.  He was born on the ranch in Yuba County near the 
present Bainbridge home, on December 26, 1862, and is the youngest of twelve 
children born to Levi and Eliza (Bowman) Bainbridge, both natives of Virginia.
            Levi Bainbridge crossed the plains to California, coming to 
Marysville in 1849. Returning East, he crossed again about 1856; and then, in 
1859, the family, including father and mother and eight children, crossed the 
plains to California with an ox-team, and in the fall of that year located on 
Honcut Creek, thirty miles northeast of Marysville.  In 1860 Levi Bainbridge 
preempted 160 acres, the patent to the land being signed by President U. S. 
Grant, which patent his son, Albert P. Bainbridge, has recently recorded.  Levi 
Bainbridge was a stanch Democrat, and served as judge of the justice court of 
New York Township, Yuba County, for over twenty years.  In the early sixties he 
engaged in freighting from Sacramento and Marysville to Nevada City.  He passed 
away at the family home on December 1, 1895, aged eighty-six years, while the 
mother survived until November, 1906, passing away at the age of eighty-five.  
Of the twelve children born to them, eight grew up and survived the parents:  W. 
E. Bainbridge, a miner, now deceased; Worth, residing in Bangor, Cal.; Oliver 
G., a rancher on the home place; Mrs. Cassy Ruff, deceased; Levi, a rancher on 
the home place; Cynthia, the wife of Albert Hougland, of Chico; John C., a 
rancher and dairyman on the home place; and Albert Pike, of this review.
            Albert Bainbridge and his three older brothers are associated in the 
operation of the old Bainbridge home place, where they all reside.  The 
Bainbridge brothers are actively interested in furthering irrigation development 
in the Hansonville district.  Albert Bainbridge has served as deputy county 
clerk and as school trustee of the Hansonville school district and is a member 
of the order of Owls at Challenge.  John C. Bainbridge served as constable of 
New York Township for eight years, and was deputy sheriff for two terms.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p  508-509