Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

CLYDE T. ULLREY

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A rancher of experience and exceptional prosperity, whose faith in 
Sutter County has been justified through his success for several years past, is 
Clyde T. Ullrey, a native son, born at Upper Lake, Lake County, Cal., on 
September 5, 1878.  His father was Robert Miles Ullrey, a native of 
Pennsylvania, who had married Miss Lillian Allen, a native daughter from Shasta 
County.  Grandfather Allen was a sturdy pioneer who came around the Horn to 
California.  Robert Miles Ullrey was a farmer, and he and Miss Allen were 
married at Upper Lake.  He died at the age of sixty-seven, well thought of by 
all who knew him, while Mrs. Ullrey is still living near Meridian.  In 1879 the 
Ullreys removed to Colusa County and took up farming near Williams, and in 1886 
they came into Sutter County; and there, in February, 1922, the father passed 
away at Meridian.  It thus happened that our subject, who remained at home until 
 he was twenty-one, was sent to the West Butte school, where he laid the 
foundation for his capable management of affairs later in life.
            When of age, Mr. Ullrey started out for himself, and for a time was 
satisfied to add to his experience while supporting himself by labor as a 
farm-hand; and then he leased land in the vicinity of West Butte or Meridian and 
carried on agricultural pursuits for himself.  The last five years he has leased 
a part of the old Shannon ranch, about one and one-half miles to the southwest 
of Meridian.  He now leases forty acres from the Shannon place, ten acres from 
Mrs. Gibson of Meridian, and thirty acres from Dr. E.V. Jacobs of Meridian.  Mr. 
Ullrey is a Republican, influential in the local councils of the party.
            At Marysville, on November 10, 1909, Mr. Ullrey married Miss Pearl 
Curtis, a native of Meridian and the daughter of Phillip and Mary (Daugherty) 
Curtis, both natives of Charlestown, Ill.  They came out to California in the 
seventies, and the father died when Pearl was a little girl.  She was therefore 
reared by Mr. and Mrs. James Shannon, attending the grammar school at Meridian.  
One son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ullrey, named James Robert.  Mr. Ullrey 
has been Noble Grand in Lodge No. 212, I.O.O.F. at Meridian, and both he and his 
wife are members of the Rebekahs at the same place.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 705