Butte County
Biographies
MISS MATTIE R. LUND
MISS MATTIE R. LUND.--A shining
example of efficiency in public life, and an interesting representative of
woman in the official world, is Miss Mattie R. Lund, the popular tax and
license collector of Butte County. She was born in Morgan Valley, Lake County,
Cal. Her father is O. B. Lund, a native of Norway, who crossed the Atlantic six
times in voyages to the United States and back, and finally reached California
in early days. In Plumas County he went in for mining, after which he farmed
and raised stock. For some time he was located in Morgan Valley, but about
twenty years ago he came to Oroville, and since then has been engaged in the
furniture business. Miss Lund’s mother was Miss Bertha Hammer before her
marriage, and happily she also is still living.
Six children were born to this worthy
couple, five of whom are living. The subject of our sketch was the oldest, and
from school days showed signs of that marked ability which has since easily
made her a leader; Irene is a bookkeeper for the Shasta Lumber Company,
Marysville; Gertrude is the wife of Capt. Fred I. Gilbert, United States
National Army, and resides in Oroville; Bert was a student at the University of
California, but is now a Second Lieutenant in One Hundred Eighth United States
Engineers; and Helen is attending the University of California. Each has made
his or her way successfully.
Miss Mattie Lund having attended the
grammar and high school, afterwards entered the Oakland Polytechnic Business
College, where she was graduated in August, 1907, and then returned to Oroville
as bookkeeper for the City of Paris. In that position she remained six years,
until September, 1913, when she resigned to accept a clerkship for the Natomas Consolidated Company of California.
In 1914, Miss Lund became the candidate
for the office of county tax collector, and led three opponents in the
nomination, while she lacked seven hundred votes of a majority. At the general
election, however, the esteem in which she was held by the community was fully
demonstrated in her being elected by a large majority. The following January,
therefore, she took the oath of office, and since then she has fulfilled her
duties to the evident satisfaction of everyone. The new Butte County charter
consolidated the offices of treasurer and tax collector under the official
title of Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax and License Collector. Miss Lund was
nominated and elected to the above office at the primary election on August 27,
1918, winning by a large majority.
Miss Lund has also passed the civil
service examination for service in the postoffice.
She is a member of the State Association of Tax Collectors, and attended the
meeting at San Diego, in 1915, and the convention in Fresno, in 1916, at which
she was instrumental in inducing the association to meet in 1917 at Oroville,
at which meeting she was the hostess. In fraternal circles, Miss Lund is known
as a member of the W. R. C., the Women of Woodcraft, and Ophir Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
02 August 2008.
Source:
"History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages
1000-1001, Historic
Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2008 Marie Hassard.
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