Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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JOHN WARNER GIBLIN
 
Associated with the agricultural development of Yuba County is the name of John 
Warner Giblin, a prominent farmer and business man of this section.  For the 
past fifteen years he has made his home in Marysville, but he still carries on 
his ranching pursuits in Yuba County.  Marysville, Cal., is his birthplace, 
where he was born on November 2, 1864, a son of Patrick and Margaret (Durning) 
Giblin, both natives of Ireland.  Patrick Giblin, the father, came to California 
in the late fifties by way of the Isthmus of Panama.  He conducted a boarding 
house in Marysville for a few years, and then homesteaded 160 acres of land in 
Sutter County, for which he paid one dollar per acre.  Here he built a 
residence.  He lived only a short time to enjoy the fruits of his toil, for he 
was killed in a runaway-team accident when only forty-five years old; his wife 
survived him until she was seventy-five years old.  They were the parents of 
three children: Thomas F., the eldest, who resides in Yuba City; John Warner, of 
whom we write; and Mrs. Lammie, of Colusa.
John W. Giblin acquired his education at the Grant district school adjacent to 
the home place.  When he was fourteen years old, he went to work on a ranch, 
continuing until he was old enough to handle the home place.  Later he and his 
brother, Thomas F., purchased another quarter section of land about half a mile 
from the home place, which they farmed until 1885.  They then sold it and with 
the proceeds purchased the Sam McClure place of sixty acres, which now adjoins 
the city limits of Yuba City.  The brothers developed their ranch to all kinds 
of fruit and were pioneers in the business, the place being devoted to raising 
peaches and cherries.  They have since added twenty acres more to their original 
purchase, and this will also be developed to fruit.  In 1922, from one of their 
cherry trees they took 1,100 pounds of fruit; and in 1923, 1,030 pounds.  Three 
five-inch electrically operated pumps are used for the irrigation of their 
orchard, one of them being a deep-well turbine.
The marriage of Mr. Giblin occurred at Marysville in February, 1890, and united 
him with Miss Catherine Moran, born in Marysville, a daughter of Martin Moran, a 
native of Ireland.  Mr. and Mrs. Giblin were the parents on one daughter, 
Bernice, now Mrs. Chenoweth, residing in Marysville.  Mrs. Giblin passed away at 
the family home in Marysville eight years ago.  Mr. Giblin was one of the 
organizers of the Wild Goose Gun Club, which has preserves in Butte County and 
is one of the leading gun clubs in the United States.  Mr. Giblin is a member of 
its board of directors.  He is a member of Marysville Council, No. 1869, K.C., 
and of Marysville Parlor, No. 6, N.S.G.W.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
 
p 671