Solano County Biographies

ALFRED BOURNE NYE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born at Stockton, San Joaquin county, Cal., October 25, 1854, but resided 
principally in Tuolumne county, until six years of age, when he was taken by his 
parents to Plymouth county, Mass., where he remained till 1871.  In this year he 
returned to California, and commenced acquiring the printer�s trade in the 
office of the �Vallejo Chronicle;� subsequently became the local editor for that 
publication, and in April, 1877, purchased the �Dixon Tribune� newspaper, of 
which he is the present editor and publisher.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 500


Controller.
ALFRED BOURNE NYE (Republican) was born at Stockton, California, October 25, 
1853; he received his education in the public schools of Massachusetts and in 
the academy at Falmouth, in the same State; became a newspaperman, and was 
residing in Oakland, California, at the time when Governor George C. Pardee 
selected his as his private secretary, in which capacity he acted from January, 
1903, until November 23, 1906, when he was appointed by Governor Pardee as State 
Controller to take the place of E. P. Colgan, deceased; on January 7, 1907, 
Governor Pardee again appointed his to the same office, vice self and E. P. 
Colgan, deceased. In 1910 he was nominated for Controller by both the Republican 
and Democratic parties, and in the general election following was elected for 
the term 1911-1915.

Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton