Butte County
Biographies
ROBERT NELSON ANDERSON
ROBERT NELSON ANDERSON.—A successful business man and rancher who is a native
son of Butte County, Robert Nelson Anderson was born on his father’s ranch, on
Rock Creek, north of Chico, January 20, 1872. The father was the late Capt.
Robert Anderson, whose interesting life history also appears in this work.
Robert Nelson was reared on his father’s
ranch, receiving a good education in the public schools,
and engaging in farming and stock-raising with his father until the latter part
of his father’s incumbency of the sheriff’s office, when he was appointed
jailer at Oroville, serving for two years, until the close of his father’s term
as sheriff. He then engaged in farming with his father for four years, when he
established himself in the general contracting and hauling business in
Oroville, making a specialty of heavy machinery. In this he continued for
twelve years, hauling nearly all the machinery and also for the dredgers. In
April, 1913, he removed to Marysville, where he is busily engaged in the same
line of business, and where he is the leader in heavy hauling, having hauled
the steel and machinery for the dredgers. He lately turned this business over
to his son, Richard C., who now manages it, while he himself devotes most of
his time to grain-raising, in which he has been very successful. For some years
he has been associated with his brother, C. P. Anderson, in
grain-growing, leasing land near Nord and also at Nelson, Butte County. They have
about twenty-six hundred acres in wheat and barley this year, and are planning
for about the same acreage in 1919. They have one sixty horse-power and two
seventy-five horse-power Holt caterpillar engines, using them to put in the
crop, as well as harvesting with Harris combined harvesters. Anderson Brothers
have become the largest grain-raisers in Butte County.
In Oroville, occurred the marriage of
Robert N. Anderson to Miss Bertha C. Downer, a native daughter of Oroville, who
was for many years connected with the Oroville Register and to them has been born one son, Richard C., now manager of their
general contracting business. Mr. Anderson is energetic and progressive,
and takes an active part in movements for the improving and developing of his
native county.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
16 July 2009.
Source:
"History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1216-1217, Historic Record Co, Los
Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Marie Hassard.
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