Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

WILLIAM G. McROBERTS

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Among the excellent ranch properties that surround Yuba City is the McRoberts 
ranch, embracing over 200 acres, known as the Briggs place, which Mrs. McRoberts 
inherited from her father, Dr. Jackson.  William G. McRoberts has assumed the 
management of this extensive ranch property, and has set about to bring it back 
to its once high state of cultivation and restore the fine gardens and lawns; he 
is also rebuilding the house, and intends to make the ranch again a show place 
in the county.
William G. McRoberts was born March 16, 1869, at Danville, Ky., the youngest of 
six children in the family of Andrew and Kate (Robinson) McRoberts, also natives 
of Kentucky, who both passed away when our subject was eight years old.  He was 
reared in the home of his uncle, Thomas McRoberts, a well-to-do rancher near 
Danville, and was given the opportunity of a good education, finishing the 
grammar and high school courses and then graduating from Centre College at 
Danville, with the class of 1886; and he also took a business course at 
Lexington, Ky.  From 1888 to 1892 he was engaged as a bookkeeper with the 
Pittman Coal Company, at Pittsburg, Ky.
In 1892, at London, Ky., Mr. McRoberts was married to Miss Mollie Jackson, a 
native of Placer County, Cal., the eldest of four children born to Dr. G. H. and 
Elizabeth Jackson.  Mrs. McRoberts is a graduate of Hesperian College, at 
Woodland, class of 1892.  Following her graduation, she went East on a visit to 
relatives in London, Ky., where she met and married Mr. McRoberts.  The 
following year Mr. McRoberts brought his bride to Woodland, Cal.; and for three 
years he was engaged with a wholesale store in San Francisco.  In 1896 he 
located in Sutter County, where he became the owner of a one-third interest in a 
peach orchard near Yuba City, which he still owns.  Mr. McRoberts is a Democrat, 
and has served three terms as chairman of the Sutter County Democratic Central 
Committee.  Fraternally, he is a member of Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F. & A.M., 
Yuba City; Marysville Chapter No. 13, R.A.M., and Marysville Commandery No. 7, 
K.T.; and with his wife he belongs to Fidelia Chapter No. 5, O.E.S., Yuba City.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 623