Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

JAMES A. WORTH

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A representative of one of the old pioneer families of Sutter County 
may be found in James A. Worth who has witnessed practically the entire later 
development of the county, in which work of progress and improvement he has 
borne his part.  His beautiful orchard home embraces 175 acres, about 
twenty-three miles south of Yuba City on the Feather River; seventy-three acres 
of this ranch has been set to cling peaches, which are yielding a handsome 
profit for the hard work done by its owner.  Mr. Worth was born in Stockton, 
Cal., November 6, 1882, the fifth in a family of eight children born to James 
and Catherine (Bagley) Worth, both natives of Nova Scotia.  James Worth, senior, 
came to California in early days and engaged in mining; two years after his 
arrival in the Golden State, he was followed by his wife and four children and 
the family then located in Stockton, where the father became a fuel dealer.  In 
1886 Mr. Worth left Stockton and went into the mountains of Northern California 
where he engaged in the livestock business and here the family of eight children 
grew up.  The father of our subject passed away July 21, 1922, while the mother 
had passed on in 1890.  James A. Worth came to Sutter County in 1897, and 
several years were spent on working on ranches throughout the county. 
            On June 5, 1912, Mr. Worth was married to Miss E. Anita McNamara, 
the youngest of six children born to M. and Catherine (Claquez) McNamara.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Worth are the parents of one daughter, Cathryn Anita.  Mrs. Worth is a 
member of the board of trustees of Lee school district and in January, 1924, 
served as chairman of the trial jury in the Superior Court of Yuba County, being 
the first woman to serve in that capacity in the State.  Mr. Worth is a member 
of Nicolaus Lodge No. 129, F.&A.M. at Wheatland, and of Pleasant Grove Lodge No. 
269, I.O.O.F.  In national politics he is a Republican.  Mr. Worth acquired his 
interest in Sunny Bank Farm in 1914 and the development work which he has 
accomplished speaks well for the labor he has expended.  Much of the acreage of 
this ranch was subject to overflow before the establishment of the State 
Reclamation District No. 1001, which Mr. Worth has assisted in every possible 
way.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1176-1177