Plumas County Biographies

Joshua C. Abbott

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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“Old Man Abbott,” the first settler in Big Meadows, built a cabin near the 
present town of Prattville, in 1855. In 1860 he located near the Abbott spring, 
now the Dotta ranch. He sold out in 1873, and moved to Modoc county in the 
vicinity of Goose lake. He was only seventy-five years of age, and said he 
wanted to “grow up with the country.” At last account he was still growing. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 294