Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

MANUEL F. GOMES

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            An experienced, enterprising and progressive dairyman who has done 
much to advance agricultural industries in Sutter [Yuba] County, is Manuel F. 
Gomes, the wide-awake and popular manager of the Marysville Creamery, at 320 E. 
Street, Marysville.  He was born at Galveston, Texas, on August 25, 1868, but 
was reared in the Azores Islands.  When a  child of two and a half years he was 
taken by his parents to their old home in  Flores, of the Azores group, where he 
was there reared on a farm and educated in the local schools and academy.  When 
sixteen years of age, in 1884, he crossed the ocean and the American continent 
to California, and for two years attended school in San Francisco, after which 
he engaged in raising sheep and cattle.  He took up his headquarters in 
Marysville in 1893, and since then has bought and sold several ranches, and also 
realty in Marysville.  He owns 1400 acres in Yuba and Sutter Counties, in three 
ranches; and he recently set out eighty acres to vineyard, and ten acres as an 
orchard.  He owns several dairies, with approximately 700 milk cows.  Some 
fourteen years ago, in company with Martin Sullivan and Herman Berg, Mr. Gomes 
bought the Marysville Creamery, the pioneer institution of its kind at 
Marysville, established about three years before.  They moved the creamery from 
the corner to the middle of the block on E Street, between Third and Fourth 
Streets, and bought the building and its lot, 160 by 153 feet.  Some five years 
ago they also equipped the plant with modern machinery; and now, in this model 
workshop, they turn out some 2500 pounds of butter a day, which is shipped 
widely and finds an ever ready sale under its famous label, �Marysville Butter.� 
 They operate three trucks to bring the cream from the surrounding dairies and 
they sell only at wholesale.  Besides these various interests, Mr. Gomes is a 
director of the  Rideout branch of the Bank of Italy, at Marysville.
            In Marysville, Mr. Gomex married Miss Ida Erich, a popular lady of 
Sutter County; and their family circle has been made happier by two children:   
Manuel C., who assists his father in business, and Cecilia.  Mr. Gomes belongs 
to Marysville Lodge No. 783, B.P.O.E.  Formerly he was a member of the 
California National Guard, at Marysville, and was widely known as a crack shot 
in the rifle team.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1285