Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

HOWARD GRANT LITTLEJOHN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            The name of Howard Grant Littlejohn is closely connected with the 
horticultural development of Sutter County, where since 1901 he has been engaged 
in the cultivation and improvement of his forty-acre ranch, located in the Barry 
district of the county.  His birth occurred in what was then the Grant district 
of Sutter County, September 29, 1871, and he is the fourth of nine children born 
to the late James Littlejohn, a California pioneer, represented on another page 
in this history.
            Grant Littlejohn, as he is familiarly known, began his education in 
the Grant district school, finishing with a course in the San Francisco Business 
College.  After graduating from that college, in 1895, he was occupied in 
clerical work with the J. R. Garrett Company of Marysville for four years.  He 
then gave up inside work and located on his present ranch property.
            Mr. Littlejohn was married at Independence, Jackson County, Mo., 
October 23, 1912, to Miss Bessie Wernex, a native of Napoleon, Lafayette County, 
Mo.  She is a daughter of William and Margaret (Vermillion) Wernex, natives of 
Missouri, where they were farmers.  The mother has passed on, but the father is 
still living.  Of their family of nine children, Mrs. Littlejohn is the fifth.  
Mrs. Littlejohn is active in civic and social affairs in the community, being a 
member of the Eastern Star, and of the Bogue Wednesday Club, of which she has 
served both as treasurer and as president, and is now chairman of the board of 
trustees.  She has been delegate several times to the convention of Northern 
California Federation of Women�s Clubs, as well as a delegate to the State 
convention of Federated Clubs.  Immediately after his marriage, Grant Littlejohn 
brought his bride to California, and the same year completed a modern bungalow, 
where they have since resided.  Their home is a center of genial welcome and 
generous hospitality.  Mr. Littlejohn has set out his ranch to peaches and 
developed a first-class orchard, of which he may well be proud and to which he 
gives most excellent care.  A believer in cooperation, he is a member of the 
California Canning Peach Growers� Association, and also a member of the Barry 
Center of the Yuba County Farm Bureau.  Politically, Mr. Littlejohn is a 
Republican; and fraternally, he belongs to Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F. & A.M., 
Yuba City, Washington Chapter No. 13, R.A.M., Marysville; Marysville Pyramid No. 
23, Ancient and Egyptian Order of Sciots; and Fidelia Chapter No. 56, O.E.S., in 
Yuba City.  His enterprise and public spirit can always be depended upon to 
assist worthy objects that have for their aim the development and improvement of 
his native county.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 387