Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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GEORGE WASHINGTON CURRY
 
            One of the interesting and worthy native sons of California is 
George Washington Curry, who was born on January 27, 1865, about half way 
between Roseville and Elverta on Dry Creek, Sacramento County, Cal., a son of 
Daniel and Emily (Barnes) Curry, natives of Terre Haute, Ind., and Kentucky, 
respectively.  Daniel Curry migrated from Indiana to Missouri, where he was 
married to Miss Barnes, who had come from Kentucky with her parents.  In 1851 
the young couple crossed the plains to California in an ox-team train.  Soon 
after his arrival he began keeping the hotel called the Seventeen Mile House, 
which was situated on the Sacramento-Nevada stage road.  Later Daniel Curry 
engaged in farming and stock-raising at Pleasant Grove, Sutter County, where he 
resided until he passed away at the age of eighty-five years and one month.  
Mrs. Curry passed away in Sutter County when she was seventy-two years old.  
This worthy pioneer couple were the parents of ten children:  Louisa, Elizabeth 
and Edward, all deceased; Sarah M., Mrs. Clark of Hanford; Daniel B.; George 
Washington, the subject of this sketch; Isabelle, Mrs. Bishop, of Richmond; 
W.S., of Willows, Glenn County; Robert Lee, deceased; and Mrs. Lilly Kimball, 
deceased.
            George Washington Curry was reared and educated at Pleasant Grove, 
where he attended the Grammar School.  He and his brother Daniel ran the home 
farm and leased 600 acres of land which he devoted to grain.  Mr. Curry came to 
the West Bear River Township, Yuba County, and raised beans and stock for many 
years.  He then purchased twenty acres eight miles south of Marysville in the 
Arboga Colony, which he devoted to peaches.  This orchard is irrigated by a four 
inch electric pump.  In national politics, Mr. Curry is a Democrat.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1140