Plumas County, California

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A list of the Plumas County biographies that were published in the book Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties (Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882). These biographies are available in full-text form at the of-site links attached to each name below. Some Sierra County biographies may be included here. A Abbot, Joshua C. Adams, J. C. ( John C. Adams ) B Bacher, Antone Banet, Walter M. Barnett, Robert I. Battelle, T. S. ( Thomas S. Battelle ) Baugh, B. B. ( Benjamin B. Baugh ) Beaton, Alexander Beckwourth, James P. Bidwell, Henry C. Black, Thomas Blakemore, Robert M. Blood, J. M. ( should be J. N. – John Nelson Blood ) Blough, W. ( William Blough ) Bonner, Thomas D. Boring, Isaac C. Brabban, Dixon Bringham, Marion C. Brown, A. M. ( Albert M. Brown ) Brown, J. C. ( John C. Brown or Browne) Buckbee, John R. (Hon.) Bunnell, L. Wellington Buxton, G. Q. ( George Q. Buxton ) Byers, James D. Byers, William T. C Carter, J. S. (Dr.) ( Josiah S. Carter ) Cate, Daniel Rogers Cate, LaFayett (M.D.) Chambers, Robert Craig Chapman, Albert Picket Chapman, John C. Cheney, William A. (Judge) Church, Isaac S. Church, William S. Clark, Stephen J. Clinch, John Clough, Greenleaf Greeley (Judge) Compton, John Davenport Connolly, Patrick Cooksey, James Corcoran, T. ( Timothy Corcoran ) Cox, Thomas Crane, William H. (Hon.) Cunningham, Noble C. D Davis, Aaron Davis, Charles H. Dean, Wilson Seaman DeHaven, W. N. (Capt.) ( William N. DeHaven ) Dolley, E. P. ( Edward P. Dolley ) E Ede, Walter Edman, J. A. ( John A. Edman ) Edwards, James E. Elwell, William Emmons, Theodore F. Evans, J. F. ( Jeremiah “Jerry” F. Evans ) F Fagg, J. D. ( Joseph D. Fagg ) Finlayson, Donald Robertson Firmstone, H. T. ( Henry T. Firmstone ) Fletcher, A. W. ( Albert W. Fletcher ) Flournoy, Robert S. Ford, James Forgay, Nathaniel B. Forman, William Fralich, Matthias ( Matthias Frohlich ) Freeman, Joel E. Fritsch, John B. Fritsch, Martin G Gallagher, E. J. ( Edward J. Gallagher ) Gansner, Florin Gear, Hiram L. Gentry, J. C. ( John C. Gentry ) Goodwin, John Daniel Graham, William D. R. Gray, Rotheus A. Grazer, Henry H Haggard, Thomas L. Haines, G. P. ( George P. Haines ) Haley, Julia Hallsted, Alanson A. Hallsted, Peter Lane Hamlen, E. H. ( Edmund H. Hamlen ) Harbison, John Hardgrave, John Hardin, M. ( Merrill Hardin ) Hartwell, John F. Hedrick, Duskin Hendel, Charles W. Herring, George H. Hersey, Thomas F. Hill, Charles M. (M.D.) Hill, John W. Hogan, Edmund Thomas (Judge) Hosselkus, Edwin Douglas Howk, Corel Hughes, B. B. ( Brainard B. Hughes ) Hughes, Marshall Hughes, Thomas Humphrey, George Wilson Hundley, Patrick Oglesby (Judge) I Ingersoll, William S. Irwin, Richard (Hon.) J Jacks, Richard Johnson, William F. Jones, Israel F. (Judge) Jones, William E. K Keddie, Arthur W. Kelley, Ripley C. Kellogg, Henry Waters Kellogg, William W. (Hon.) Keyes, David B. King, R. ( Rebecca Dieterick King ) Kinney, Asa Kirby, Alexander Knoll, Matthias Knuthsen, Jacob L Largent, John C. Larison, James H. Lassen, Peter Laufman, Cyrus Lemmon, B. F. ( Benjamin Franklin Lemmon ) Lemmon, William C. Lewis, Hiram Lewis, Joseph E. N. (Judge) Lott, Charles Fayette (Judge) Lowry, John M Maddox, Theophilus Manson, William Martin, Richard McBeth, John McCullough, George B. McCorkle, Joseph W. (Judge) McGee, John B. (Hon.) McGill, Robert L. McLear, George Spear McShane, Joshua Brown Meylert, Gurdon M. Miller, James Miller, William H. Moore, A. P. (Judge) ( Armstrong P. Moore ) Myers, J. D. ( James D. Myers ) N Nevill, John Newman, David Derr Nicholson, James P Patch, Isaac C. Patterson, David B. Peck, Elisha T. (Hon.) Peel, John J. L. Peter, W. T. ( William T. Peter ) Phipps, John A. Pierce, Elisha H. Pratt, W. M. ( William M. Pratt ) Pratt, Willard (Dr.) Price, William S. Prowattain, E. (Ernst Prowattain ) R Rains, W. Smith ( William Smith Rains) Rawden, William B. Rockwell, Calvin W. (Col.) Rodgers, Charles Gregory Rodoni, F. Rowland, Francis M. Ruppert, Charles Russell, H. P. (Gen.) ( Henry P. Russell ) S Searls, Niles (Judge) Seltier, Claude Francois Sexton, Warren T. (Judge) Shannon, Thomas B. (Hon.) Sharpe, George W. Sheer, Roy R. Sherwin, James L. C. (Hon.) Simons, Charles Otto Smith, J. H. ( John Harvey Smith ) Sperry, W. A. ( William A. Sperry ) Stamfli, N. ( Nicholas Stampfli ) Stark, Lewis Stover, R. ( Reuben Stover ) Strang, Jared T Taylor, E. W. ( Edwin Wallace Taylor ) Taylor, J. Charles ( John Charles Taylor ) Taylor, Jobe Tyrrill ( Job Terrill Taylor ) Thomas, Charles C. Thompson, Richard (Spanish Ranch resident) Thompson, Richard (Indian Valley resident) Treleaven, Thomas V Variel, R. H. F. ( Robert H. F. Variel ) W Wagner, William Ward, John S. (Judge) Ward, William T. (Judge) Webber, David Gould (Dr.) Welden, Allen J. West, T. F. ( Thomas F. West ) Weston, Isaac Whiting, Fenton Berkley Whitlock, James H. (Maj.) 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