Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ELBERT L. HILL

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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An exceptionally wide-awake motor representative who has done much to advance 
the best interests of the automobile industry in Northern California along 
permanent lines, is Elbert L. Hill, formerly manager for the factory branch of 
the Chandler and Cleveland cars, but now connected with the Shasta Garage in 
Yuba City.  He was born at Alexander, Nebr., on April 22, 1898, the son of C. M. 
and Etta (McPherson) Hill, who came out to California and settled at Chico, and 
then at Biggs, in 1913.  They undertook ranching, and with the success that 
always comes to the progressive farmer, they have closely identified themselves 
with this section of the Golden State.  Elbert attended the grammar and high 
schools in Iowa and California, and in 1915 he completed the secondary school 
courses, and was ready for Drake University, in Iowa, where he spent a year.  
Then he joined his father on the ranch for a couple of years, and after that was 
with the Diamond Match Company as foreman, for fourteen months.  Whatever he 
did, wherever he worked, he learned all he could, and he rounded out each 
engagement in the most successful manner possible.
In 1919, Elbert L. Hill came to Marysville and secured work as a mechanic; and 
in January, 1921, he established himself in business, opening the Travelers� 
Garage; but in October, 1922, he sold out and became manager for the factory 
branch of the Chandler and Cleveland cars, with an extensive territory, Sutter 
and Yuba Counties, and the southern part of Butte County.  Disposing of that 
interest, Mr. Hill moved to his ranch in Sutter County and now is employed at 
the Shasta Garage in Yuba City.
Mr. Hill was married in Marysville, to Miss Florence Lueth, of Tierra Buena, 
Sutter County, who shares her husband�s liking for fishing and out-of-door life. 
 Both are deeply interested in the affairs in the locality in which they live 
and thrive.  Mr. Hill is a Republican.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1224