Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

SIDNEY WILLIAM MUDGETTE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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A man of unusual intellectual ability and business sagacity, Sidney William 
Mudgette was born in McHenry County, Ill., June 9, 1871, a son of John and 
Charlotte (Farnsworth) Mudgette, natives of Illinois and New York, respectively. 
 John Mudgette was a mechanical engineer in Steele County, Minn., where he 
settled with his wife in 1876; and there both he and his wife were laid away to 
rest.
Sidney William Mudgette attended public school at Owatonna.  When he was eight 
years old he started to work at odd jobs in various places in Minnesota.  After 
completing his studies, he taught school for three years in the county and for 
two years in the city of Minneapolis.  Mr. Mudgette then went to Salmon City, 
Idaho, where he mined for two years, after which, in the gold rush of 1897, he 
went to the Klondike and for fourteen years engaged in mining and prospecting 
there, making several rich strikes.  His efforts were chiefly devoted, however, 
to mine-promoting near Kougrock, in the Nome section of Alaska, in which he was 
very successful.  In 1911, Mr. Mudgette came to Sutter City, Cal., and became 
interested in the general merchandise business.  He was first employed by Straub 
Brothers, his employment being coupled with an interest, and in 1920 he took 
over the entire business.
On July 15, 1914, at Hayward, Cal., Sidney William Medgette was united in 
marriage with Miss Rose F. Hoenig, a native of Cleveland, Ohio.  After she 
graduated from Oberlin College, with the class of 1898, she taught high school 
for seventeen years, being principal of the North Pleasant High School at 
Oberlin for seven years.  She taught for four years in the Wahpeton High School 
in North Dakota, and four years in the high school at Etna Mills, Cal.; and 
previous to her marriage she taught for two years in the Sutter Union High 
School.  Intensely interested in children, she was dearly loved and honored by 
thousands of pupils who came under her personal instruction during her seventeen 
years of service.  Always an active worker, and a firm believer in rendering 
service to the utmost, she is now assisting her husband in the development of 
his business at Sutter City, ably handling the bookkeeping department.
Mr. Mudgette is the owner of 120 acres of land situated a half mile south of 
Sutter City.  Fifty-five acres of this ranch are devoted to general farming, and 
the remaining portion is set out to almond trees.  This land was developed from 
an open tract and brought up to its present highly cultivated state.  Mr. 
Mudgette has seen many stages of growth from the pioneer days in Sutter City and 
its vicinity to the present time, and has always stood for those things that go 
to develop the community, taking especial interest in the advancement of 
irrigation.  Generous to a fault, he is very considerate of the welfare of his 
fellow men.  While expending large sums of money in developing his land, he has 
been guided by the broader spirit of altruism, giving work to those whom it 
would benefit the most.  �Live and let live� is his motto, and his numerous 
friends are glad to see his efforts meeting with well-merited success.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1026