Butte County
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BERYL VERNE THOMASSON
BERYL VERNE THOMASSON.--The oldest son
and second child of the late Nathaniel and Caroline Thomasson. Beryl Verne
Thomasson was born on the Thomasson Ranch in
Beryl Verne was educated in the public schools, and being the oldest son in the family, he began work early on the ranch lifting some of the burden from the shoulders of his elders. When he was fourteen his father died, and that left him the mainstay of the younger members of the family and his mother’s able helper, and later manager. The early lessons he learned have been of great assistance to him and he considers no work to hard to be accomplished, and he has shouldered responsibilities that would have made many an older man hesitate before undertaking them.
There
are to be found on the Thomasson Ranch, eight hundred
head of cattle and many sheep and hogs. The home place consists of three
hundred twenty acres, and there is another farm of two hundred thirty acres
that is devoted to their interests, as well as twelve thousand acres of range
land in the hills, over which their stocks roam and graze. Besides these broad
acres, they lease some twenty-three hundred acres fourteen miles from
Marysville, and they also pasture stock on the logged off lands of the Diamond
Match Company at
Transcribed
by Kim Buck.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 768-769, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2008 Kim
Buck.
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