Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ALBERT THEODORE OLSON

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            As a native son of Sutter County, born on one of the old pioneer 
ranches of this section, Mr. Olson is carrying on the work for which his early 
training and environment best fitted him, and is naturally making a success of 
agriculture.  Born on the old Per Olson ranch, fifteen miles southwest of Yuba 
City, on October 3, 1895, he is the son of Per and Mary Olson, early settlers 
and sturdy pioneers.  He attended school in Gaither and Central Districts, and 
later entered Heald�s Business College at  Sacramento, where he was graduated in 
1915.  He then took a position with Cudahy Packing Company, and afterwards was 
with the Southern Pacific Railway at Sacramento as a blue printer in the 
drafting department, remaining with them one and one-half years.
            Returning to Sutter County, Mr. Olson went back to farming, and was 
associated with his brothers on the old home place, cultivating the 
quarter-section ranch until the call to arms came and he entered the United 
States Army.  June 26, 1918, marks the date of his entry into the service of his 
country.  He was sent to Camp Kearney and placed in the 115th Engineers, Company 
A, and after training there one month, left on July 26 for France, sailing via 
Hoboken, Liverpool and Southampton to Cherbourg, France.  On October 1, 1918, he 
was sent to the front.  On the 3rd of that month he was injured, and for the 
remainder of the time was a casual, and was transferred from one place to 
another.  On March 26, 1919, he sailed from Bordeaux for the United States, and 
on his arrival was returned to Camp Merritt, N. J., and thence to the Presidio, 
San Francisco, where he was in the Letterman General Hospital.  Since then his 
injury, a crushed foot, has been operated on several times, but has not 
successfully healed; and on July 7, 1919, he was discharged with a surgeon�s 
certificate of disability.  In November, 1920, Mr. Olson purchased his present 
ranch of ten acres in peaches and prunes, where he has since made his home.  He 
has a four-inch pump on the property for irrigation and uses the most modern 
methods in cultivation; and with the knowledge gained while a boy on the home 
farm, combined with the practical application of the latest results in 
scientific agriculture, he is winning deserved success.
            The marriage of Mr. Olson, on May 1, 1921, united him with Miss 
Sigrid M. Olsson, born in San Francisco, a daughter of Ludwig and Kerstin 
(Jonson) Olsson, her father a native of Sweden who came to California in early 
days, and now is in charge of the framing department for Sanborn, Vail & Company 
of that city.  One son has blessed their union, Albert Theodore, Jr.  Mr. Olson 
is a Republican, and takes both interest and pride in helping to advance the 
interests of his section.  He is a member of the Woodmen of the World, of Yuba 
City, and of Yuba-Sutter Post, American Legion.  He has completed a course at 
the United States Veterans� Bureau, and is a member of the Disabled War 
Veterans.  Mrs. Olson is a member of the Yerba Buena Chapter, O.E.S., in San 
Francisco, and of the Wilson Woman�s Club.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1304-1305