Posted on: Yuba County, California Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/YubaBios/35 Surname: Rackerby, Adams, Albert, Clark ------------------------- PAUL A. RACKERBY - An all round progressive citizen, Paul A. Rackerby has made a success at farming and mining and for the past eight years has served as deputy sheriff of Yuba County. Born in Sutter County near Knight's Landing, October 12, 1879, he is the eldest son of William Martin and Ruth (Adams) Rackerby, both natives of Missouri. William Martin Rackerby arrived in California in 1849, having crossed the plains with his parents, Joseph and Cynthia A. Rackerby, when nineteen years old. He engaged in mining at Georgetown for one year and then tried farming on Cachez Creek in Yolo County. In the early fifties he was interested in the first quartz mine in Browns Valley. In Marysville, William Martin Rackerby and Miss Ruth Adams were married; and five children were born to them: Undine, the wife of G. L. Albert; Vesta, the wife of A. E. Clark; Paul A., of this sketch; Wirt, deceased; and G. C. Rackerby. The family removed to Marysville in 1881. There the father was engaged in the real-estate business for the following three years, after which the family removed, in 1884, to Hansonville, where he was a merchant and rancher and was the postmaster. In 1892, Mr Rackerby petitioned to change the name of the post-office to Rackerby, the present official name. The mother died on December 25, 1901, and the father passed away in Marysville in 1909. Paul A. Rackerby began his education in the schools of Hansonville; and later he attended school in Chico. Mr. Rackerby has spent many successful years in placer mining in the Yuba foot-hills. In 1913 he purchased property at Rackerby, where he has since built a comfortable home. For the past seventeen years he has been affiliated with Brownsville Lodge No. 283, I. O. O. F., of which he is a Past Noble Grand; and he is also a member of Pine Forest Rebekah Lodge, No. 222, Brownsville. For the past eight years he has served as deputy sheriff of Yuba County; and on April 6, 1923, he was appointed a trustee of the Hansonville school district, and is serving as clerk of the board. Source: "HISTORY OF YUBA AND SUTTER COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA" by Peter J. Delay, Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, CA, 1924, page 1120