Colusa County Biographies

Butler Noles Scribner

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            Butler Noles Scribner was born on September 8, 1825, in Murry 
County, Tennessee, and was a son of John Scribner, a farmer of that locality.  
His early life was spent on his father�s farm, and his education received at the 
public school was very limited, but in later years has been largely added to in 
the practical walks of life.  At the age of twenty-three years he left the farm, 
going to St. Louis, Missouri, where he secured employment on a river steamboat.  
This life did not suit Mr. Scribner, and a year later he went to Quincy, 
Illinois, where he worked three years on a farm.  In 1852, having heard the many 
tales of the fabulous wealth to be had in the mines of California, he followed 
the rush to this State, and engaged in mining in El Dorado and Placer Counties.  
He found that fortune did not smile on all who followed mining, and in 1854 laid 
aside the pick and shovel to haul freight out of Sacramento and Marysville.  In 
1856 he was married to Miss Mary D. Scott and lived in Sacramento the first year 
of their married life, at the end of which he sold his freighting outfit and 
moved to Tehama County, where he located near Newville.  He engaged in farming 
and stock-raising, and in 1866-67 served the people of Tehama County as County 
Assessor.  In 1874 he engaged in merchandising at Newville, still retaining his 
farm, which he owns yet.  As a merchant and farmer he has been very successful, 
now being interested in three stores, at Newville, Paskenta and Orland, and 
owning two farms, one near Newville and the other northwest of Orland.  He is 
the father of ten children, seven of whom are married.  Their names are:  Mrs. 
Nancy Sebring, of Orland, a widow; Tennessee Josephine, wife of Thomas Morgan, 
of Newville; Susie Williams, wife of John Williams, near Newville; John A. T. 
Scribner, near Newville; Henry Alvin Scribner, of Newville; Charles C. Scribner, 
near Orland; Elizabeth, wife of Harvey McClain, of Newville; and Emma, James and 
Nettie, who live at home and are not married.  In 1887 Mr. Scribner purchased 
the merchandise business of O. Raphael & Co., of Orland, and in the spring of 
1888 he purchased the business of A. Beerman, uniting the two stores, when he 
moved his family from Newville to Orland, where he expects to spend the 
remainder of his days.  Mr. Scribner is a good citizen, well posted on the 
questions of the day, and is a thorough business man.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 394-395