Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

WILLIAM P. NIESEN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            In 1866 William P. Niesen arrived in California and thereafter he 
spent the time until he was eighteen in Sutter County, after which he was 
occupied in Tulare and Kern Counties, and in Washington; but since 1882 he has 
made his home in Sutter County, on a ranch southwest of Sutter City, where he 
now has 160 acres of fine land.  He was born in Osage County, Mo., August 21, 
1856, a son of Phillip and Katherine (Marconi) Niesen. With other members of the 
family, he came via Panama from Missouri to California, arriving on April 12, 
1866, at the place where the long bridge crosses Butte Slough south of the 
buttes, and settled in that neighborhood.  He began to make his won way at the 
age of eighteen, and spent one year in the San Joaquin Valley.  He then went to 
eastern Washington, in 1877, and in 1879 homesteaded 160 acres of land near 
Spokane, where he remained until 1882, when he came back  to the home place near 
Sutter City.
            On October 11, 1888, Mr. Niesen was married to Miss Ruby Davis, a 
native daughter of California; and one son, Phillip D., was born to them.  Mr. 
Niesen is a Democrat in politics, and for eight years he served as supervisor 
for District No. 3, of Sutter County.  For several years, also, he served as a 
trustee of the Brittan school district; and when the Sutter Union High School 
was founded, he served as clerk of the board of trustees for seven years.  
Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow, having joined the order in Spokane, Wash.  He 
was demitted to Yuba City Lodge in 1883; and during that year he became a member 
of the Marysville Encampment.  He is a Past Grand and a Past Chief Patriarch of 
the order.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 955-956