Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

LEROY PEASE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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One of the native sons of Sutter County, Cal., who has made a substantial 
success as a horticulturist is Leroy Pease, whose orchard of forty-two and a 
half acres near Yuba City is highly developed to figs, table grapes, olives, and 
Imperial and Robe de Sargent prunes.  Mr. Pease purchased this property in 1913, 
paying $375 per acre for it; an uncle, George Pease, had purchased the land in 
the late sixties for one dollar and seventy-five cents per acre and had set out 
an orchard.  Mr. Pease has been offered $1800 per acre for his ranch, but 
refused it.  His birth occurred on his father�s ranch, February 28, 1894, the 
eldest of four children born to Mark and Ida E. (Sanders) Pease, and a grandson 
of William Sanders, whose interesting biography also appears in this history.
At Sutter City, in July, 1913, Leroy Pease was married to Miss Edith Huffmaster, 
born in San Leandro, Cal., a daughter of C. L. and Emily Huffmaster.  
Grandfather Huffmaster came from Illinois across the plains in an ox-team train 
in 1850, and for a time resided at Wheatland.  Then he moved to Colusa County, 
homesteading land near the Mountain House, and engaged in stockraising, and, as 
he prospered, he added to his holdings by purchase until he had a large stock 
ranch.  Here he resided until his death.  C. L. Huffmaster was born at 
Wheatland, but was reared on the ranch in Colusa County.  However, he naturally 
took to mechanics and entered the employ of the Best Company, at San Leandro, as 
an engineer, and he continued with them until his death.  His brother, Charles 
Huffmaster, invented several valuable improvements for the Best Tractor.  Mrs. 
Pease�s mother came from Minnesota to California, and now resides at Sutter 
City.  Edith Huffmaster Pease was educated in the Oakland and the Sutter Union 
High Schools.  She is a charter member of South Butte Parlor, No. 226, N.D.G.W., 
of Sutter City.  Two sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Pease:  Clarence H. and 
Everett W.  Coming from a musical family, Leroy Pease at nine years of age began 
taking piano lessons under Prof. Alexander McRae; at the age of eleven he took 
up the clarinet, and since that time has been active in musical affairs as a 
member of the Marysville Municipal Band, that took first prize at the California 
State Fair in 1922.  During this contest Mr. Pease played the saxophone.  For 
fourteen years of his active career Mark Pease, Sr., was a violinist.  Mark 
Pease, Jr., is also a musician of note.  Ralph Pease, the youngest brother of 
our subject, served in the U.S. Navy and received his honorable discharge as 
first-class musician.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1219