Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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ARTHUR H. BOULTON
 
            A representative business man of Yuba County is Arthur H. Boulton, 
president of the S. G. King Company of Marysville.  He was born at Columbia, 
Mo., on January 2, 1867, the son of David R. and Obera (Cave) Boulton, who came 
out to California, in October, 1874, with their family of four children, 
locating fortunately at Marysville, from the start.  His father was for a time 
in W. G. Murphy�s law office, and then was with Weightman & Hampton, now the 
Hampton Hardware Company, and he continued in the store, and especially in 
charge of the crockery and stove department, until August, 1887, when he passed 
on.  Mrs. Boulton died in 1910, leaving behind a memory cherished by others than 
her near-of-kin.
            Arthur Boulton went to the public schools in Marysville, mastering 
the excellent courses of the high school; and then, in the employ of the J. G. 
Cohn Company, dealers in first-class dry goods, he clerked for five years on the 
spot where he is now himself engaged in business.  He next gave his services for 
a year and a half to Messrs. Weilander & Hexter, and after that he was with S. 
Ewell & Company.  Then he was head salesman for the late S. G. King.  Before Mr. 
King�s death, the company was incorporated; and at his death, in February, 1896, 
Mr. Boulton and two other employees purchased half of the stock of the company, 
and a year later they bought the entire stock.  At present the only stockholders 
are Arthur H. Boulton, who owns the controlling interest, and D. L. Sharp, his 
experienced associate.  The store, when the company was incorporated, was small, 
with only a twenty-foot front.  In 1906, Mr. Boulton purchased their present 
site and the stock of the Cohn Company, where Mr. Boulton first worked, closed 
out the clothing, and enlarged the store.  Later, he bought out the H. A. Bruce 
stock, formerly the Weilander & Hexter store, which he closed out, and put in a 
furniture stock.  Mr. Boulton has bought out the business of every company he 
has worked for, with the exception of one firm.  The S. G. King Company now have 
three different departments in Marysville, including dry goods, ladies� wearing 
apparel, and furniture; and they have a second-hand department.  The firm has 
become one of the invaluable assets of the town, a popular rendezvous to every 
housewife desirous of better things.
            In 1890, at Marysville, Mr. Boulton was married to Miss Nellie 
Rainey, of Lancaster, Ohio, an accomplished lady, who has become the center of a 
circle of warm personal friends.  Mr. and Mrs. Boulton attend the Christian 
Church, in which for a long time he was superintendent of the Bible school.  He 
is and  has been for some years president of the local Young Men�s Christian 
Association, belongs to the Rotary Club, and for years has been chairman of the 
Yuba County Probation Committee.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 980