Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE THISBY
On
the old Thisby homestead on Andrus
Island, Sacramento
county, and the place on which he still resides, was born George Thisby. The parents came to California
in 1850 via Panama,
and as early as 1852 settled on Andrus
Island. The country was wild and in
many parts society was unorganized. The father's experience in some respects
was remarkable; he ran the first craft on the Sacramento river and was otherwise interested in pioneer
doings. He was descended from an old English family.
After
leaving school George Thisby, Jr., began to work on
ranches and he was thus employed during all the years of his early manhood. In
1897 he went to Alaska, where he
lived a strenuous and adventurous life through five memorable years. Then returning
to California, he settled down to
farming on his ranch near Walnut Grove. In Sacramento
in 1905 he married Miss Lillian Campbell, a native of Placer county,
Cal., daughter of David Campbell,
who is now deceased, and his wife, Mary J. (Wiley), who still resides in Auburn.
Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Thisby:
George C. and Mary Jane, aged in 1913 six years and four years respectively. In
everything pertaining to the public welfare of his community Mr. Thisby is deeply concerned. While he is not active as a
politician he has been elected trustee of Georgiana school district and is
trustee of Reclamation district No. 556. His homestead is a fine ranch of two
hundred and twenty-one acres, highly improved in every respect and devoted to
the cultivation of fruits and vegetables. Mr. Thisby
was made a Mason in Franklin Lodge No. 143 and is a member of Isleton Lodge No.
108, I. O. O. F., of which he is past grand. In politics he is a Republican.
Transcribed by Sande Beach.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento
County, California, Pages 632-635. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1913.
© 2005 Sande Beach.