Tehama County Biographies

HARDEN CRAWFORD CURRY

Transcribed by:  Wendy Sandino

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HARDEN CRAWFORD CURRY, one of the representative and substantial farmers of the 
Sacramento Valley, and the owner of 400 acres of fine farm land situated in the 
heart of the valley, two miles northeast of the flourishing town of Corning, is 
a native on Indiana, dating his birth at Terre Haute, June 17, 1833, the son of 
William and Clemsy A. Curry.  The mother is a native of Kentucky.  The father, a 
farmer by occupation, moved to Lawrence County, Missouri, in 1840.  In 1857 the 
subject of this sketch crossed the plains, via Fort Bridger, to California, 
first locating at Red Bluff, Tehama County, where he was engaged eight years in 
teaming across the mountains from Red Bluff to Yreka, Weaverville and other 
points upon the road to the Humboldt Mines, etc.  At this period the Indians 
were very troublesome, infesting this section of the country, stealing stock and 
murdering the whites whenever the opportunity offered.  Mr. Curry was near the 
Hot Creek Station when the massacre occurred at that place.  The Indians 
attacked and murdered the whites and then burned the station.  He was engaged in 
the livery business in Red Bluff for several years, and in 1871 he went to 
Colusa County, where he engaged in farming for three years.  He was then in 
Ventura County two years, residing one year in the city of Los Angles.  In 1876 
he returned to Tehama County, and in 1880 located on his present farm, where he 
is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.
            Mr. Curry was married at Red Bluff, June 2, 1867, to Miss Isabelle 
Davis, a native of Iowa, who crossed the plains in 1861.  They have three 
children living,�Ollie F., William M. and Reta J., Mary B. died August 2, 1860, 
and Katie C. March 21, 1884.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891