Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

HUGH A. MORRISON

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Among the successful horticulturists of the Barry district of Sutter 
County is Hugh A. Morrison, who has always been alert to every business 
opportunity and whose success is due to the fact that he has been able to 
recognize and utilize advantages which others have passed by.  He was born on 
the Morrison home place at Ostrom Station, Yuba County, January 25, 1889, the 
fourth in a family of seven children born to J. H. and Henrietta (Scott) 
Morrison, whose life history may be found on another page in this volume.
            Hugh A. Morrison received a good education in the district schools 
of Yuba County, and as a boy he became familiar with farm work on the home 
place, which was devoted to grain and live stock.  Ten years ago, Hugh A. 
Morrison and three of his brothers located in Sutter County, where they engaged 
in developing the Bogue ranch, which they later purchased and improved.  In 
1919, Hugh A. Morrison sold his interest to his brothers, James and Eugene 
Morrison, and purchased his present home place, consisting of twenty-one acres, 
which he has developed to a fine cling-peach orchard.
            In Sacramento, on June 12, 1918, Mr. Morrison was married to Miss 
Laura Odell Castle, a native of Nebraska, but reared near Council Bluffs, Iowa.  
She is a daughter of Seigel and Ida Castle. The mother died when Laura was a 
baby, and she was reared in the home of Fred and Louisa Jones, and came with 
them to Sutter County in 1912, where she finished her education in Sutter Union 
High School.  Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Morrison:  Maxine and 
Hugh A., Jr.  Since 1917 Mr. Morrison has been a member of Marysville Lodge No. 
783, B.P.O. Elks.  He is a charter member of the Barry Center of the  Sutter 
County Farm Bureau, and recently he has joined the California Canning-Peach 
Growers� Association.  Mrs. Morrison is a member of the Barry Methodist 
Episcopal Church, the Ladies� Aid, and the Bogue Wednesday Club.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1303