Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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HAROLD J. MORLEY
 
Well deserving the enviable status he enjoys among railway officials in 
California, Harold J. Morley fills a position of helpful service to the public 
in the performance of his duties as freight and passenger agent of the Western 
Pacific Railroad at Marysville.  He was born at Dyersville, Iowa, on August 3, 
1877, and started to work with the Illinois Central Railroad Company, filling 
positions in various parts of Iowa.  In 1906, he moved westward to Colorado, 
where he worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad; and later he was traveling 
auditor for the Nevada Northern Railroad Company.  In 1908, he entered the 
employ of the Western Pacific Railroad in Nevada, as traveling freight agent, 
and in 1909 he was transferred to Marysville as freight and passenger agent.  
Coming here only a year after the railroad he represents was built, and entering 
into the solution of local problems with enthusiasm, Mr. Morley has been a 
constructive factor in building up and advancing the interests of the Western 
Pacific Railroad in the Marysville district; and the public has been quick to 
appreciate his helpful devotion to its service.  In addition to his activities 
as a railway official, Mr. Morley owns and successfully operates a ranch of 
forty acres in Sutter County.
At Nashua, Iowa, Mr. Morley and Miss Celia Louise Stuelke, a native of Nashua, 
were united in marriage.  Mr. and Mrs. Morley are the parents of three children: 
Frederick B., with the Standard Oil Company at Anaheim; Dorothy, attending 
college at Fullerton; and Robert, a student in the local high school.  Mrs. 
Morley is active in club work, being a member of the Marysville Art Club.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 888