Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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EARL E. MONSON
 
            An experienced, energetically enterprising, and eminently 
progressive and successful business man is Earl E. Monson, vice-president of the 
Hampton Hardware Company of Marysville.  He was born at Shelbina, Mo., on April 
26, 1878, the son of B. F. and Margaret (Thomas) Monson, who came to California 
and to Placer County in 1881, and moved into Yuba County three years later.  
Mrs. Monson adapted herself nobly to pioneer conditions in a new and growing 
country, and left a memory of helpfulness to others that is cherished by many.  
Mr. Monson, who was a contractor and builder, is still living, and enjoys the 
esteem of all who know him.  
            Earl Monson attended the public schools of Yuba County, and first 
worked on the farms and on a hop ranch near by.  Then, when only sixteen, he 
began to clerk in the grocery store; and at nineteen he entered the hardware 
field, to learn that line of trade, commencing at $25 per month.  In 1908 he 
came to the company with which he is now associated; and in 1918 he assumed the 
duties of the office he has since held to the satisfaction of all having 
dealings with the firm.  To him, as much as to anyone, perhaps, is due the 
success of this establishment in winning the confidence of the public and in 
attracting and holding patronage by a desire to render willing as well as 
dependable service.  What the Hampton Hardware Company cannot supply, in goods 
and service, is hardly worth trying to obtain elsewhere; and when prices are 
found to be lower than theirs, something has happened elsewhere that is worth 
inquiring into.
            In 1904, at Wheatland, Cal., Mr. Monson was married to Miss 
Charlotte Niemeyer, who shares her husband�s popularity in the circles of the 
Modern Woodman of America, the Odd Fellows, and the Elks.  Politically, Mr. 
Monson is a Democrat; and at the same time he is a non-partisan supporter of the 
best men and the best measures for the locality in which he lives.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 780-783