Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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HERMAN A. WURM
 
Yuba County can rightfully be proud of such a type of native son as is 
exemplified in Herman A. Wurm, born in Yuba City, January 2, 1896, the only 
child of the late Joseph and Rosa (Bottler) Wurm, the former a native of Germany 
and a baker by trade.  Joseph Wurm came to California when a young man and 
followed mining.  He received his United States citizenship papers and was a 
stanch Republican in politics.  Prominent among the Odd Fellows, he was a Past 
Grand in that order.  He passed away in 1917 at Walla Walla, Wash., aged 
sixty-eight.  The mother was born in Marysville, in which city Grandfather Henry 
Bottler was a pioneer settler and ran the first tannery in the place.  After her 
husband died, she married a second time, becoming the wife of Fred Kopp; and 
they reside on their orchard farm near Yuba City.
Herman A. Wurm was reared in Yuba and Sutter Counties and received a good 
education through persistent application to his books.  After graduating from 
the Cordua Grammar School he continued higher studies for another year.  For two 
years he conducted the ranch at Cordua, and later started in for himself on the 
Yuba River bottom lands, about eight miles north of Marysville.  With L. C. 
Shingle he cleared 240 acres for G. F. Otis of Yuba City, for which they 
received forty-five acres.  Mr. Wurm now owns seventeen acres of this land, 
which he has improved with a cling peach orchard.  He has continued in the river 
bottom lands, ranching to beans and grain, and has done exceptionally well in 
the clearing of other tracts of wilderness grown up over the rich sediment loam 
soil deposited there years ago by the overflow of the Yuba River, caused by 
filling up of the river-bed during hydraulic-mining days.
Mr. Wurm has taken an active part in community life in his district.  He has 
served as secretary of the Hallwood Center of the Yuba County Farm Bureau for 
one term, and was instrumental in organizing the Union Sunday School at Cordua 
school and is now serving his second term as its secretary.  Its membership has 
grown from six to thirty-five.  Mr. Wurm is one of the most enterprising young 
men of the county, and has unbounded faith in the future of this part of the 
Golden State.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1211