HORACE ACKLEY BETTY — For more than a half-century, Horace Ackley Betty has been actively engaged in ranching in California. While now residing in Sutter City he has the oversight of an eighty-acre ranch three miles northeast of town devoted to grain and rice, and a twenty-acre prune orchard one-half mile south of Sutter City. He was born at Williston, Vt.. May 23, 1851, a son of James and Augusta (Webb) Betty, farmer folk. There were four children in the family: Minerva, now Mrs. Doty, residing in San Jose, Cal.; Lucinda; Horace Ackley, of this sketch; and George, who is engaged in the retail and wholesale grocery business at Mina, Nev. When our subject was four years old his father died. The family remained in Vermont until 1868, and Horace Ackley Betty attended the public schools in Williston, and also the academy there. In 1868 the family removed to California and settled at Browns Valley, where they lived for two years; and then they moved to Meridian, where the mother passed away.

On February 22, 1878, at Meridian, Mr. Betty was married to Miss Bettie Kennedy, a native of North Carolina. Mr. Kennedy passed away in North Carolina, and the mother brought the family to California in 1873 and settled in Colusa County. After Mr. Betty was married, he moved into Butte County and farmed west of Gridley for seven years; then they returned to Meridian and farmed a thirty-two-acre place, where he built a comfortable house and where their family was reared. Besides his farming activities, he operated a route for the Watkins Company through Colusa, Glenn, Nevada, Yuba, Sutter, Yolo, and Solano Counties for seventeen years. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Betty: Minnie, deceased; Ralph, Lloyd, and Fred; Neita, now Mrs. Gilkey of Berkeley; Leonard; Pearl, Mrs. Bennett; Grace, Mrs. Fred Peters; and Vernon. In political views, Mr. Betty is a Prohibitionist.

"History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, California", by Peter J. Delay; Publ. By Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, 1924; pg 614