Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

WALTER B. CUTTS

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A very successful horticulturist and viticulturist, Walter B. Cutts 
was born at Marysville, May 15, 1887, a son of Albert David and Emily (Wilbur) 
Cutts.  In the early fifties, the Cutts family settled in Marysville, where the 
father engaged in the hardware business; and in 1862 Mr. Cutts and his partners 
built a store, which they conducted under the firm name of White, Cooley & 
Cutts.  Mrs. Cutts� folks came to Yuba County about that time and engaged in 
farming.  Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Cutts were the parents of four children:  Albert 
W., Lillian M., Ralph, and Walter B., the subject of this sketch.  In 1900, the 
firm of White, Cooley & Cutts purchased land and Albert David Cutts assumed the 
responsibility of supervising their orchard.  He then worked at the Riviera 
orchard near Live Oak, which lies in both Butte and Sutter Counties, and which 
had first been developed in 1885.  Walter B. Cutts accompanied the family to 
this place in 1904.  On September 6, 1909, Albert David Cutts passed away; his 
wife had died previously in 1902.
            Walter B. Cutts attended the public schools, and in 1908 he 
graduated from the Van der Naillen School of Engineers, in Oakland.  He followed 
his profession as an engineer on private mining projects near Alamogordo, N. M., 
and also worked near Sacramento, Cal., when he was engaged on the Sutter Basin 
surveys.  In 1915, he purchased land in Sutter County, at Live Oak Colony, No. 
1; and since then he has added to his holdings until he now operates about fifty 
acres, consisting of three orchards, which he has devoted to prunes, grapes, 
peaches, pears, walnuts and figs.  Mr. Cutts handled the laying out of some of 
the laterals of the Live Oak irrigation survey, and also made surveys of colony 
lands, most of his work being done since 1920.  He is a member of the California 
Raisin Growers� Association. Fraternally, he is a Mason, holding membership at 
Gridley.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p.  572-575