Tehama-Colusa-Ventura County CA Archives Biographies.....Curry, Harden Crawford 1826 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 31, 2007, 1:18 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) HARDEN CRAWFORD CURRY, one of the representative and substantial farmers of the Sacramento Valley, and the owner of 400 acres of fine farm land situated in the heart of the valley, two miles northeast of the flourishing town of Corning, is a native of Indiana, dating his birth at Terre Haute, June 17, 1833, the son of William and Clemsy A. Curry. The mother is a native of Kentucky. The father, a farmer by occupation, moved to Lawrence County, Missouri, in 1840. In 1857 the subject of this sketch crossed the plains, via Fort Bridger, to California, first locating at Red Bluff, Tehama County, where he was engaged eight years in teaming across the mountains from Red Bluff to Yreka, Weaverville and other points upon the road to the Humboldt mines, etc. At this period the Indians were very troublesome, infesting this section of the country, stealing stock and murdering the whites whenever the opportunity offered. Mr. Curry was near the Hot Creek Station when the massacre occurred at that place. The Indians attacked and murdered the whites and then burned the station. He was engaged in the livery business in Red Bluff for several years, and in 1871 he went to Colusa County, where he engaged in farming for three years. He was then in Ventura County two years, residing one year in the city of Los Angeles. In 1876 he returned to Tehama County, and in 1880 located on his present farm, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. Mr. Curry was married at Red Bluff, June 2, 1867, to Miss Isabelle Davis, a native of Iowa, who crossed the plains in 1861. They have three children living,-Ollie F., William M. and Reta J.; Mary B. died August 2, 1869, and Katie C. March 21, 1884. Additional Comments: Extracted from Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day. "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendents." – Macauley. CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1891. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/tehama/bios/curry607gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb