Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE B.
BLUE
GEORGE B. BLUE.--A worthy and useful pioneer, widely esteemed by his generation and now revered by posterity, was the late George B. Blue, a native of Union Springs, Cayuga County, N. Y., where he was born on the 1st of April, 1833. He came out to California by way of Cape Horn in the late fifties, and at Sutter Fort, on April 2, 1864, was married to Miss Mary Jane Torney, who was born in Milwaukee, Wis. She crossed the great plains with her parents on their journey to Oregon, when only six weeks old, and came to be the mother of five children, of whom only Myron and Maude Blue, now Mrs. Eugene H. Pitts, both of Sacramento, are still living, Robert, George and Fred having died.
George Blue was in Virginia City in the days of the Comstock Mine excitement, and was personally acquainted with Mark Twain, and the Floods, Fairs and others of those famous days. A carriage-maker by trade, he had a factory in Virginia City, and later, in the early sixties, he engaged in the furniture business at 732 Market Street, San Francisco, having as a partner his brother, Myron H. Blue. His carriage-making shop in Sacramento was first on Seventh Street, later on Third Street, and last on Sixth Street. He also, at one time in early days, had a sawmill at Seattle, Wash. He passed all the chairs in the Odd Fellows and he belonged to the Red Men. He passed away in Sacramento at his old home at 1331 L Street, May 22, 1906; his widow survived him until March 21, 1913. Sacramento, town and county, are proud to claim such a good man and exemplary citizen as George B. Blue.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 919.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.