Butte County
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DANIEL RYNEARSON
DANIEL RYNEARSON.—A thoroughly
trained and competent blacksmith who, having selected Chico, after considerable
travel, as the best town in which to reside and work, has never lost interest
in it as the place in which he has steadily thrived, is Daniel Rynearson, who was born in Champaign, Ill., on
January 17, 1870. His father was John Rynearson,
a native Darke County, Ohio. His great-grandfather
was distinguished in the Revolutionary War. His father was a farmer who settled
in McLean County, Ill., and then removed to La Fayette, Tippecanoe County,
Ind., where he died. His mother, who was Elizabeth High before her marriage,
was a native of Illinois, and died in the same state. Three boys were born of
this marriage, the oldest son being the subject of our sketch.
Brought up on a farm, Daniel Rynearson attended the public school, and in 1894 entered
the employ of the Barrett Paper Manufacturing Company, at Beloit, Wis., from
which works he was later transferred to their million-dollar paper-mill plant
in Peoria, Ill. Still later he was again transferred to their paper-mill in
Chicago, and there he continued until he became beater engineer, his duty being
to make the stock from which the paper was made. Such was his responsibility
that he made stock for fifty thousand pounds of dry paper a day, producing the
same from rags that were brought together from all parts of the world. In this
activity he continued for fourteen years, when he resigned and came to the
Pacific Coast.
Going to the State of Washington for a
year, he engaged in blacksmithing, but in 1910 he came south to California and
started his present shop at Chico. He bought out Messrs. Springer and McIntyre,
who were located at the corner of First and Main Streets, and there he has
continued the business at one of the old stands in Chico. He manages the
enterprise alone, and does a general blacksmithing, repairing and
carriage-making trade. He made a specialty of horse-shoeing, installed electric
power, and thus came to have one of the best equipped and most efficient blacksmith
shops in this vicinity.
In Chicago, Mr. Rynearson
was married to Miss Amelia Stuber, a native of
Germany, who became popular in the circles in which she has moved. He is a
favorite member of the Modern Woodmen of America, of the Loyal Order of Moose,
and of the Knights and Ladies of Security.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
29 October 2009.
Source:
"History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1283-1284, Historic Record Co, Los
Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Marie Hassard.
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