Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

G. A. WESSING

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Since coming to California in 1888, G. A. Wessing has been keenly 
interested in everything pertaining to the welfare and progress of his community 
and has co-operated earnestly and heartily in many projects for the public good. 
 His birth occurred in Packwaukee, Wis., December 4, 1866, and he is the fifth 
in a family of nine children born to Edward and Mary Anna (Meckler) Wessing, 
natives of Saxony, Germany, and Alsace-Lorraine, respectively.
            G. A. Wessing was reared and educated in his native State and 
remained there until he was twenty-two years old, when he came to California.  
Soon after his arrival here he became a partner with his brother, E. J. Wessing, 
who had come to California in 1876 and had entered the employ of his uncle, H. 
Wessing, pioneer merchant at Nicolaus.  G. A. Wessing and his brother purchased 
the business from their uncle; and five years later a younger brother, F. W. 
Wessing, entered the business with them as a partner.  Later still, the interest 
of E. J. Wessing was purchased by Mr. Wessing and the younger brother, and they 
thereafter continued the business until 1914, when it was sold.  G. A. Wessing 
and his brother are joint owners of 200 acres of choice farm land near Nicolaus, 
which they purchased in 1910; and in 1914 Mr. Wessing became joint owner in an 
850-acre tract three and a half miles south of Nicolaus.  Eight years ago Mr. 
Wessing entered the fruit business, and he now has fifty-two acres in prune and 
peach orchard.
            The first marriage of Mr. Wessing united him with Miss Maggie M. 
Waddell, a native of Wheatland; and one daughter was born to them, Lorraine, a 
graduate of the San Jose State Normal School, now the wife of Atwood McKeehan, 
who is a rancher.  Mrs. Wessing passed away in August, 1899.  On October 17, 
1906, Mr. Wessing was married to Mrs. Effie M. (Luce) Brewer.  She has one son 
by a former marriage, Niron L. Brewer, a graduate of the University of 
California, class of 1921, with the degree of B.S., and now the agricultural 
instructor in the Sacramento High School, who married Miss Bertha Elliott, of 
Sacramento.  Mrs. Wessing was born near Sheridan, Cal., a daughter of Niron 
Luce, a pioneer rancher at Sheridan until his death.  He was a New England man, 
born at Industry, Me.  Her mother was Lottie Wheeler, who was born at 
Pittsfield, in the same State, a daughter of Rev. O. Wheeler, a Baptist 
minister.  The mother passed on in Sacramento.  One daughter has been born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Wessing, Gusta A.  Mr. Wessing served as treasurer and tax 
collector for Levee District No. 2 prior to the forming of State Reclamation 
District No. 1001; and since 1915, he has served as trustee of this district.  
For many years he was trustee of the Nicolaus school district.  Fraternally, he 
belongs to Marysville Lodge No. 783, B.P.O.E., and for many years has been clerk 
of Pleasant Grove Camp No. 9526, Modern Woodmen of America.  Mrs. Wessing is a 
member of Wheatland Chapter, Order of the Easter Star, and the Marysville Art 
Club.  During the World War, Mr. Wessing was active in Liberty Loan and other 
allied war drives; while Mrs. Wessing took an active part in the work and was 
treasurer of the local chapter of the American Red Cross.  In politics a 
Democrat, Mr. Wessing has served on the County Central Committee.  Since 1922 he 
has been a director of the Sutter County Chamber of Commerce.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1163-1164