Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Delay, Peter J. 1865 - 
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Author: Peter J. Delay

    PETER J. DELAY.— Peter J. Delay, author of this History of Yuba and Sutter
Counties, was born in Marysville, Yuba County, September 8, 1865, and has
resided continuously in the county. His first employment was delivering
newspapers in the era when one train a day reached the city from the larger
centers, which arrival was the big event, and everyone who was at leisure went
to the railroad sta-tion to note the arrivals and departures. Peculiarly enough,
after ten years of store life, starting at the age of seventeen, he drifted back
into newspaper work and at this writing has been connected with the "fourth
estate" for thirty years. 

    In 1893 he took the position of city editor of the Marysville Democrat,
evening paper, holding the same for seven years. Early in 1900, he entered the
employment of the Sacramento Bee, as a special correspondent to the Superior
California department of that paper, covering Yuba, Sutter and adjoining counties. 

    Representing the State controller's office in the inheritance-tax
department, he has served under three regimes — under those of A. B. Nye and the
late John S. Chambers, and at the present writing under State Controller Ray L.
Riley. 

    In March, 1904, Peter J. Delay was elected, without opposition, a member of
the Common Council of the City of Marysville, representing the third ward. At
the close of a two-years term he was reelected to the same office. 

    In March, 1908, he was chosen Mayor of his native city in one of the warmest
municipal elections in the city's history. At the end of his term he retired
from political life. A fellow journalist living at a distance, commenting upon
Mr. Delay's success at the polls, expressed wonderment, editorially, as to how a
man with a name denoting anything but force, and with the burden of a newspaper
man to live down, could accomplish such a feat. 


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HISTORY OF YUBA and SUTTER COUNTIES 
CALIFORNIA 
WITH 
Biographical Sketches OF 
The Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified with Their
Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present 

HISTORY BY 
PETER J. DELAY 

ILLUSTRATED 
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME 

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1924


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