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FRED H. HEIKEN



An efficient, trustworthy public official who enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens, is Fred H. Heiken, the treasurer and tax collector of Yuba County [Sutter County]. He was born on a farm in Sutter County, on August 16, 1890. His father, Henry B. Heiken, came to California in 1854, while his mother, who was Margaret Egan before her marriage, reached the Coast as a young girl; and in Sutter County they were married. Prior to his coming to California, Mr. Heiken had been in New Orleans, and had gone through the cholera plague. After coming to California, he spent some years transporting freight to and from the mines, and then spent the remainder of his life in farming. He homesteaded land in Sutter County, and part of what he homesteaded is still held by the family. He died in 1903 and the following year Mrs. Heiken breathed her last.

Fred Heiken obtained his early training in the public schools. He remained on the home ranch until he was seventeen years of age, when he added to his schooling by attendance at a business college. He then worked for a while, and afterwards went back to the college, and took a postgraduate course. Next he entered the employ of the Natomas Company, and was with them, in their accounting department, for five years. In the meantime, also, he was in business for himself in Folsom. For another five years he engaged in general merchandise trade at Tudor, in Sutter County; and on selling out, he was appointed to serve as county treasurer and tax collector for the unexpired term of C. D. O’Banion, deceased, being appointed on January 3, 1922, and in the fall of 1922 he was elected to the same office for a four-year term. Mr. Heiken is the owner of a peach orchard, which he developed from a grain-field. Interested in civic improvement, he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

In Berkeley, on August 20, 1922, Mr. Heiken was married to Miss Ora F. Ferguson, a native daughter of Sacramento County; and they have two sons, Robert and Henry. He is a member of Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F. & A.M., Yuba City, and also of Marysville Lodge No. 783, B.P.O.E. He belongs to the Sutter Gun Club, is fond of hunting and fishing, and of the pleasures of out-of-door life, and is one of the enthusiasts for Yuba City and Sutter County, claiming for both many attractions and advantages not to be found elsewhere. His influence in his community makes for the general good.



History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924

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