Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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GEORGE R. GLENN
 
A miner who has a most interesting story to tell is George R. Glenn, of the 
wide-awake town of Marigold, in Yuba County.  A native son, he first saw the 
light in Trinity County, on January 19, 1881, when he joined the family circle 
of R. M. and Mary (Dodge) Glenn.  His father was a native of Missouri, and was 
ten years old when he came to the Coast, in 1852, with his three brothers, and 
they settled in Trinity County.  When our subject was two years old, his father 
moved to Sutter County, purchased a farm there, but later sold the place, and 
then moved to Marysville.  Mrs. Glenn was a native of Trinity County, she being 
the daughter of a pioneer who came out here very early.  R. M. Glenn died in 
Yuba County, on September 29, 1916, at the age of seventy-four.  Mrs. Glenn, now 
sixty-three years of age, resides in Sacramento.  The worthy couple had nine 
children, George R. Glenn being the second in the order of birth.  Nellie lives 
in Sacramento; Frank lives at Lincoln; Wilbur is deceased; Harry is also at 
Sacramento; Clarence is deceased; and Stella, Bert and Marie are at Sacramento.  
George R. Glenn attended the grammar school at Wheatland, and when eighteen 
years of age, started out in the world for himself.  He became a lineman with 
the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and put in three years in Yuba County at 
construction work.  After that, for another three years, he tried dredging for 
gold in Bear River.  Then, on July 16, 1909, he came to Marigold, and since then 
he has been with the Marigold Dredging Company as a winchman.
On January 17, 1910, at Sheridan, Placer County, Mr. Glenn was married to Miss 
Ethel L. Metteer, a native of Live Oak, Sutter County, and the daughter of 
Joseph W. and Minnie M. (Mills) Metteer.  Her father was a native of Live Oak, 
and had been reared there.  Her grandfather had come across the plains in early 
days, and his good wife was an equally sturdy pioneer.  J. W. Metteer was a 
farmer and a well-borer, and he and his wife live at Marysville.  They had ten 
children, and Ethel L. Metteer was the eldest.  Then came Robert W., who is at 
Yuba City; George H., of Marysville; Lorena, now Mrs. Manford, of Sacramento; 
Luttie, Mrs. John Kirk, of Sacramento; Zelma, Mrs. Fisher, of the same city; 
Norma, Mrs. Rumble, living near; and Mariette, of Yuba City.  Earl E. and 
Raymond C., the fourth and the fifth in the order of birth, are deceased.  Mrs. 
Glenn attended the grammar schools of Sutter and Placer Counties, and her 
excellent grounding there has enable her the better to point the way to her own 
children, Vivian Ethel and Lois Elaine.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1207