Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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ISAAC ERICKSON
 
            A thoroughly progressive, up-to-date and successful rancher is Isaac 
Erickson, who was born at Maple Ridge, Isanti County, Minn., August 27, 1882, a 
son of August and Augusta Erickson.  August Erickson went to Idaho about 1890, 
where he took up a homestead, living there until 1901, when he came to 
California.  He settled in Turlock and bought 400 acres of land for $20 an acre, 
being one of the first Swedish settlers there.  He helped to develop the Turlock 
Colony, and in 1912 he sold the property and came to Arboga, where he purchased 
forty acres for himself and forty acres for each of his three sons:  Alvin, 
Paul, and Isaac, the subject of this sketch.  In 1921, at the age of 
seventy-six, August Erickson was laid to rest; his wife had died one year 
previously.
            Isaac Erickson attended the public schools near Idaho Falls, Idaho.  
In 1912, with his father and brothers, he came to Arboga.  They became colonists 
in the Arboga Colony, and by their energetic industry started the developments 
that have made such rapid growth and have resulted in such success for that 
region.  Mr. Erickson improved forty acres to alfalfa and established a dairy of 
forty milk cows, high-grade Holsteins.  However, this was only a secondary 
interest, for he has been principally engaged in contracting and building, 
having built all the houses and farm buildings in the colony, including the 
large Arboga Hotel.  In 1921 he sold his dairy farm and moved to his �Bear River 
Gardens,� three miles west of Wheatland.  He still continues in the contracting 
and building business in Yuba and Sutter Counties, having some of the finest 
houses in these counties to his credit.  His home ranch comprises thirty acres 
of rich soil in the Bear River bottoms, where he has built a modern home.  He 
had a crop of beans that yielded thirty-three sacks to the acre; and in May, 
1922, he planted a patch of alfalfa, which he cut five times without irrigating. 
 He also has ten acres of young peach trees, and a dairy of twenty cows.  He is 
an active member of the Wheatland Center of the Yuba County Farm Bureau.
            On March 3, 1906, at Sacramento, Isaac Erickson was united in 
marriage with Miss Ruphina Snygg, who was born in Nebraska.  Her parents are 
mentioned elsewhere in this volume.  Mr. and Mrs. Erickson were blessed with 
three children:  Viola, Gladys, and Everett.  Mr. Erickson endorses the 
platforms of the Republican party.  From 1913 to 1916 he served as justice of 
the peace of West Bear River Township.  He is greatly interested in the 
advancement of his community.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1161