Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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WILLIAM J. SCHULTZ
 
            As one of the upbuilders of Yuba County, William J. Schultz�s 
industry and judgment have reached out and touched many of the most substantial 
enterprises of this section.  For the past twenty-seven years he has served as 
postmaster at Clipper Mills, and has also conducted a general merchandise store 
during that time.  He is the agent for the Ford automobile, and carries Ford 
parts.  He represents the Liverpool-London Globe Insurance Company, and is a 
notary public.  Mr. Schultz was born at Gibsonville, Sierra County, Cal., the 
eldest of seven children born to John Frederick and Louisa (Whitebred) Schultz, 
the former born in Germany in 1830, and the latter born in Pennsylvania of 
German-Swiss ancestors.  John Frederick Schultz left Germany when a lad of 
twelve years to escape the rigid military training exacted in that country.  He 
first entered the Golden Gate in 1848, having rounded theHorn; and on his second 
voyage he left the sailing vessel in the harbor and proceeded direct to Sucker 
Flat, near Smartsville.  Here he mined for about ten years; and then he became a 
joint owner in the North American Mining Company, owners of the mine of that 
name at Gibsonville, and was thus occupied until 1874, when he purchased the 
hotel and ranch at Clipper Mills, Butte County, thereafter conducting a 
roadhouse for many years.  Here he passed away on January 24, 1910.  He was 
survived by his wife until 1912, when she too passed away at the same place.
            William J. Schultz received his education in the public schools of 
Yuba and Butte Counties, and his early youth was spent in helping his parents 
around the hotel.  In 1896 he established his general store at Clipper Mills, 
which he has successfully conducted every since.  About seven years ago, Mr. 
Schultz opened a branch library of the Butte County system in his store at 
Clipper Mills.
            The marriage of Mr. Schultz united him with Miss Agnes Bisset, a 
native of Jacksonville, Ill., but who came to California when a small child.  
She was a daughter of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Finn) Bisset, natives of Scotland, 
who migrated to Illinois, and in 1870 came to Marysville, Cal.  Mrs. Schultz 
holds a life certificate as a teacher in the public schools.  One daughter has 
been born of this union, Freda, a graduate of Oroville Union High School and 
Heald�s Business College, Stockton, and then a stenographer with the Holt 
Manufacturing Company, and now with the American Gear Company in San Francisco.  
Mr. Schultz has served as a member of the Democratic Central Committee of Butte 
County for four years.  He is a member of the Butte County Board of Appraisers 
under the new charter, and is now serving his second term as secretary of the 
board; he has been a school trustee of Clipper Mills district for the past 
twenty years.  Since 1893 he has been a member of the Forbestown Lodge,No. 50, 
F. & A.M.  The day he was made a Master Mason he was elected Junior Warden; the 
next year, Senior Warden; and the next, Worshipful Master; and each year since 
then he has been reelected to that office.  Twenty-seven years in that office, 
he holds the State record as Worshipful Master in length of steady service.  In 
thirty years he has missed only three meetings; and often in the winter time he 
walked to Forbestown through the snow in the afternoon to attend lodge, 
returning the next forenoon.  He is a member of Franklin Chapter No. 20, R.A.M., 
of Oroville; Oroville Commandery No. 5, K.T.; and Marysville Council No. 3, R. & 
S.M.; and with his wife he is a member of Amapola Chapter No. 119, O.E.S., 
Oroville.
            A brief history of Pine Grove Hotel, at Clipper Mills, will be of 
interest.  The original hotel was built in 1855 by a Mr. Plant, and later the 
ownership passed to Mr. Cornell.  In 1870 the original building burned down, but 
the hotel was immediately rebuilt.  In 1875 the elder Mr. Schultz became the 
owner and later the ownership passed to William J. Schultz, and it was run as a 
hotel until it was burned to the ground on April 14, 1917, after which it was 
found impractical to rebuild on account of the advent of the automobile and 
trucks.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 386-387