Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

DANIEL FRANCIS SULLIVAN

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A successful realty operator, who has also rendered Live Oak a good 
service in quite another field, is Daniel Francis Sullivan, the well-known 
realtor who has organized and still conducts a good business in trucking.  He 
was born in Fond-du-Lac, Wis., on May 2, 1864, the son of Daniel and Catherine 
(Devlin) Sullivan, who came to California as far back as 1875.  They bought land 
in Colusa County, and made an enviable record as successful farmers.
            Daniel Sullivan went to the public schools of Butte County; and when 
he had profited by such courses as they offered, he turned in and helped his 
father on the home farm.  At the age of fifteen he left home and for a couple of 
years worked on ranches; and then he went into Modoc County and rode the range 
for three years.  Returning to Butte County, he followed farming until 1900, 
when he came into Sutter County and commenced a ten-year period of ranching at 
Lomo.  Then he moved to Live Oak and engaged in the livery business; but because 
of the introduction of the automobile, he turned to trucking, and at the same 
time has been carrying on an agency for both real estate and insurance.  His 
good judgment and his reliability have commended him to many in the latter 
department of commercial activity; and if one wishes a good �buy� or has 
something worth while to sell, or desires to make sure of being insured, he does 
well to place his affairs in the hands of our subject, who is fidelity and 
enterprise combined.  As to trucking, whatever Dan Sullivan starts out to 
deliver gets there, at the other end of the line, right side up with care.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 462