Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

WILLIAM F. YUHRE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A rancher whose thoroughly up-to-date methods and enviable results 
command admiration from all interested in twentieth century agriculture, is 
William F. Yuhre, living near Catlett Station, not far from Pleasant Grove.  He 
was born in Placer County, between Roseville and Pleasant Grove, on August 27, 
1874, the son of William F. and Etta (Phillips) Yuhre, but he hardly knew his 
mother, as she died when he was very young.  His father was one of those sturdy 
sons of the Fatherland who helped to make a valuable contribution towards the 
development and building up of the country; and when he first came to the United 
States, he settled for a while in Wisconsin, where he worked for wages.  In 
1854, he pushed on to California; and it was then that he settled on a farm 
between Roseville and Pleasant Grove.  He had a fine quarter-section of grain 
land, and had a family of six children:  Louisa and Gussie are now deceased; and 
Minnie, Herman, Maude and William F. are living.  William F., Sr., died in 1922, 
aged eighty-eight years.
            Our subject was the second oldest child in the family and he 
attended school in the Roseville, Antelope and Pleasant Grove districts.  
Starting out for himself when he was twelve years old, he herded sheep and 
turkeys and hogs, and worked for wages until he was twenty-seven years old.  He 
then went into the dairy business at Pleasant Grove, beginning with forty acres. 
 He later purchased twenty acres, and still later added forty acres more, and 
with the 220 acres Mrs. Yuhre inherited from her father, they have 320 acres, 
where they raise alfalfa and grain and have a dairy of twenty-five cows.  He has 
a pumping plant, a five-inch centrifugal pump operated by an electric motor of 
fifteen horsepower.  Twelve years ago, he built a home that was then regarded as 
very comfortable and attractive, but seven years ago, he erected a still finer 
residence, a real improvement to the property.  Mr. Yuhre is as well posted on 
agricultural possibilities in this section as any man for miles around.
            At the Catlett ranch, on New Year�s Day, 1900, Mr. Yuhre was married 
to Miss Josephine Catlett, who was born on that ranch and had been schooled in 
the Cottonwood district.  Mrs. Yuhre is a daughter of John R. and Fannie 
(Coppin) Catlett, born in Indiana and Ione, Cal., respectively.  They were 
farmers, owning a ranch of 1800 acres.  The mother died in June, 1922. Mrs. 
Yuhre is the oldest of five children.  Mr. and Mrs. Yuhre are the parents of 
three children, Dorothy, Clyde and Thelma.  Mr. and Mrs. Yuhre enjoy the 
confidence, esteem and good-will of the community in which they industriously 
live and thrive; and they are among the enthusiastic admirers of the county, in 
whose future they have such confidence.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1192