Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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HORATIO CLIFFORD CATE
 
            A wide-awake executive whose services are appreciated by both the 
well-known concern he represents and also the patrons whom he has the pleasure 
of serving, is Horatio Clifford Cate, the accommodating manager of the Pratt 
Building Material Company, of Marysville.  He was born at Princeton, Colusa 
County, on May 2, 1889, the son of Fred and Ida (Brown) Cate.  His father came 
as a boy with his parents across the plains, and has spent most of his life in 
California.  At present he is operating the ferry for Colusa and Glenn Counties. 
 Mrs. Cate, the mother, breathed her last at the early age of thirty, esteemed 
and mourned by many friends.
            Horatio C. Cate enjoyed grammar-school opportunities in pursuit of 
an education, and then went to work as a boy, remaining for twelve years with 
the Exploration Gold Dredging Company of Oroville.  In time he became 
dredge-master, and helped to build one of the dredges.  In June, 1919, after and 
enviable record for efficiency and dependability, he entered the service of the 
Pratt Building Material Company; and he has been in charge of their Marysville 
plant and their growing trade ever since, and is also a stock-holder in the 
company.  In national political affairs Mr. Cate is a Republican; in local 
matters, however, he maintains a non-partisan attitude, being always ready and 
anxious to work for the best interests of Marysville and Yuba County.
            On May 18, 1910, Mr. Cate was united in marriage with Miss Florence 
Womack, of Placer County, a native daughter.  Two children have blessed this 
union, Mildred and Maxine.  Mr. Cate is a member of Apache Tribe, No. 148, 
Independent Order of Red Men.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 976