Yolo-Solano-Tulare County CA Archives Biographies.....McArthur, J. B. 1849 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

J. B. McARTHUR, cashier of the Bank of Winters, is personally an illustration of
the rapid rise to prominence which characterize the young blood of California.
The Bank of Winters first opened its doors for business in 1885, with E.
Wolfskill, president; William Sims, vice-president; and E. E. Kahn, cashier. In
1886 J. B. McArthur succeeded E. E. Kahn as cashier; Mr. Kahn's other business
duties requiring so much of his time he was compelled to resign his position as
cashier, but still acted as secretary. These have held their respective
positions from that time until the present. Mr. McArthur was born March 24,
1849, in Ontario, Canada, a son of Daniel and atherine [sic] (MCcDonald) [sic]
McArthur. His father, a farmer by occupation, resided in Canada a greater
portion of his life, dying there in 1857, at the age of sixty-five years; and
the subject of this sketch was but four years old when his mother died. He was
brought up on a farm and started out in life for himself at the age of fourteen
years, going to Minnesota, where he spent a year, thence to Nebraska, where he
was six years engaged in farming. The next three years he passed as a student at
a college in Illinois; thence he went to the State University of Nebraska, where
he attended one term; in 1875 he came to California and located at Vacaville,
where he accepted a position in the service of the Vacaville & Clear Lake
Railroad Company as station agent, and remained three years; and he finally
removed to Winters, accepting a position with the railroad in that city. He was
employed as station agent until 1886 when he accepted his present position. It
may be said of him that "he was old when young that he might be young when old,"
and his success in life has been entirely the result of his own industry, energy
and perseverance.

  He was married, in 1877, to Miss M. L. Bryce, a native of Kentucky. Three of
their four children are living, namely: Mary E., Charles S. and Bessie M.

  Mr. McArthur has about 480 acres of land in Tulare County, on which is carried
on general farming, and 960 acres in Washington. His neat and tidy residence in
Winters is located on East Abbay street. He has been a member of the Baptist
Church since he was eighteen years of age.


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.

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