Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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DEWITT CLINTON CUDDEBACK
 
            Prominent among the ranchers of Yuba County, and among the native 
sons of the Golden State, is Dewitt Clinton Cuddeback, who was born near Chico, 
Butte County, April 25, 1874, a son of Dewitt Clinton and Elizabeth (Daggett) 
Cuddeback, natives of Illinois.  Dewitt Clinton Cuddeback, Sr., came to 
California with his wife about 1870.  They settled and farmed in Butte County 
for about ten years, and then moved to the Prairie district, Yuba County, nine 
miles northeast of Marysville, where Mr. Cuddeback purchased a quarter-section 
of land, and they lived on this ranch for ten years.  After selling it, they 
moved to Brownsville and purchased eighty acres of land used for stock-raising, 
and there he engaged in freighting out of Marysville to the mountains.  After 
residing there for ten years, they moved back to the old Prairie district and 
rented a ranch for eight years.  They then moved to Chico, where he purchased a 
small home, in which he resided until his death.  Both he and his wife died when 
they were eighty years old.  Mr. and Mrs. Cuddeback were the parents of ten 
children:  Alice, Etta, Flurence, Edson, Peter, Dewitt Clinton, Daisy, Emery, 
Robert, and Sallie.
            Dewitt Clinton Cuddeback was educated in the Prairie school district 
in Yuba County.  When he was twenty years old, he started out for himself and 
worked on ranches in Butte and Yuba Counties.  For five years he was in 
partnership with his father in the dairy business.  He rented the Ruff ranch in 
Linda Township, and while making his home there he engaged in teaming.  He then 
moved to George Beilby�s ranch, four miles north of Wheatland.  This was taken 
over by George Fleming; and since that time Mr. Cuddeback has been 
superintendent of this ranch of over 3000 acres, which is being improved to 
vineyard and orchard.  He leased a part of this ranch from year to year, and 
farmed for himself.
            On June 16, 1909, at the Boyer ranch, Yuba County, Dewitt Clinton 
Cuddeback was united in marriage with Miss Lucille Downey, who was born at 
Marysville, the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Lane) Downey, natives of the Golden 
State.  Her grandfather Lane was one of the first settlers of Yuba County, and 
her grandfather Downey was also an early pioneer.  Mr. and Mrs. Downy were the 
parents of two daughters:  Lucille, Mrs. Cuddeback, and Mrs. Veda Whiteside.  
Mr. and Mrs. Cuddeback were blessed with six children:  Earl, Lloyd, Veda, Irma, 
Howard and Harold.  Mr. Cuddeback is a Republican in national politics.  At the 
present time he is clerk of the board of trustees of the Virginia school 
district.  Fraternally, he is a member of Sutter Lodge No. 100, I.O.O.F., of 
Wheatland; and he and his wife are members of the Rebekahs.
 
 History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1299-1300