Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

GEORGE OHLEYER

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            The members of the Ohleyer family have become well known and highly 
esteemed in Sutter County; and George Ohleyer deserves mention in a work of this 
character as one of the county�s substantial horticulturists and worthy and 
respected citizens.  He resides on his fine orchard property, located two miles 
west of Yuba City on the Franklin road, which is entirely devoted to the growing 
of peaches.  Born near Marysville on the north bank of the Yuba River, August 5, 
1864, he is a son of the late George Ohleyer and Mrs. Ellen Ohleyer, early 
pioneers.
            George Ohleyer was reared on his father�s ranch and attended 
district school.  At fourteen years of age he began to work on the home ranch, 
and two years later was doing a man�s work.  In those days the 960-acre ranch 
was devoted entirely to grain-raising; but since 1903 the ranch has been set to 
orchards, and much of it has been sold in ten- and twenty-acre tracts, until it 
is now a well-settled and thriving community.
            In Yuba City, on December 3, 1892, Mr. Ohleyer was married to Annie 
Dowell, born near Yuba City, the fourth daughter of Frank and Annie (Wynecoop) 
Dowell, of Illinois, pioneer settlers of the county, who crossed the plains in 
the late fifties and are both now deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Ohleyer are the 
parents of seven children.  Frances is a graduate of the Chico State Normal 
College, and taught school in Sutter and Glenn Counties for three years; she is 
now the wife of Ernest Ingle of Shasta County.  Eleanor is also a graduate of 
Chico State Normal College, and is now the wife of Chester Reische of Meridian; 
they have three children:  Jean, Ann, and Voriece.  Clarice is with the Pacific 
Gas & Electric Company in Marysville.  George, Jr., is attending Sutter High 
School.  Raymond, Erma, and Carolyn are attending the grammar school.  Mr. 
Ohleyer served three years in Company C, 8th California National Guard, was a 
member of the Fifty Champions Military Rifle Shot, and during the railroad 
strike in 1894 served in Sacramento.  During the World War he served on various 
committees for bond drives and for the Red Cross work and other activities.  He 
is a charter member of Franklin Center of the Sutter County Farm Bureau; for 
eight years he served as director and assessor of Levee District No. 1; and for 
the past  eight years he has been deputy county assessor of Sutter County.  
Fraternally, he is a past officer of the Woodmen of the World of Yuba City; and 
Mrs. Ohleyer is a member of the Neighbors of Woodcraft.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 464