Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

JAMES H. MORRISON

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Sutter County is indebted for the invaluable contribution made to its permanent 
growth and real progress by such citizens as James H. Morrison, who resides on 
his forty-five-acre orchard located four miles south of Yuba City, at Bogue 
Station.  Born May 31, 1891, at Ostrom Station, Yuba County, he is the fifth 
[seventh] of nine children born to John and Henrietta (Scott) Morrison, pioneers 
of California.  John Morrison passed away in Sutter County in 1921, his widow 
surviving him until 1923.
James H. Morrison received a good education at the Virginia district school, 
adjacent to his father�s ranch, and from early boyhood was given duties on the 
home ranch to perform.  In 1912 Morrison Brothers bought the Bogue ranch of 175 
acres, and James H. Morrison and his three brothers developed it into a fruit 
orchard.  In 1918 James H. Morrison and his brother Eugene purchased the 
interest of the other brothers in the ranch, and thereafter operated it until 
1922, when they sold 140 acres.  Our subject retains thirty-five acres for a 
home place, which he has developed to cling peaches.
Mr. Morrison married Miss Rose Hastings, a native of Yuba County, the daughter 
of Charles Hastings of Marysville.  Mrs. Morrison is a graduate of the Stockton 
Normal School, and for three years followed teaching in the Yuba County schools. 
 Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Morrison: Margaret, June, and 
John Howard.  Mr. Morrison has been keenly awake to the advancement of his 
locality, and has been liberal in giving of his time and means for its 
development.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 860