Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

EDGAR A. HARRIS

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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At the age of one year Edgar A. Harris accompanied his parents to California, 
where he has since made his home.  He has been successfully identified with 
grain-farming in the Sacramento Valley, and at the present time is cultivating 
1080 acres to wheat and barley in Sutter County.  Born in Jackson County, Mo., 
November 29, 1873, he is the eldest of nine children in the family of Jeremiah 
A. and Rhodie E. Harris, well-to-do ranchers of the Slough district of Sutter 
County.  When Jeremiah A. Harris came to California in 1874, he bought land in 
Contra Costa County, which he farmed for many years before locating on his 
present home place.  Edgar A. Harris attended the Contra Costa County schools 
and assisted his father on the home ranch until 1897, when, with two of his 
brothers, he leased land near Danville and there raised grain.  After two years 
of good crops, Mr. Harris located near Tudor, Sutter County, and farmed the 
Schroeder ranch for three years.  Then he returned to the home ranch in Contra 
Costa County and remained for seven years, after which he returned to Sutter 
County, leased a ranch of 2090 acres, and farmed to wheat.  In 1920 he purchased 
160 acres, which he sold at a good profit the following year.  He has also made 
other investments in land, from which he has realized substantial returns; and 
in 1922, he purchased the present home place, consisting of twenty acres newly 
planted to cling peaches, two miles west of Yuba City.  He also engages in 
contract harvesting of grain for about forty-five days each year.
Mr. Harris� marriage united him with Miss Alice Wilson, born in San Mateo 
County, a daughter of Mrs. Mary Wilson.  Three children have been born to them: 
Clifford, Darrold, and Dorothy.  Mr. Harris is a trustee of the Lincoln school 
district of Sutter County.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 618