Plumas County Biographies

Robert I. Barnett

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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Mr. Barnett was a native of Richmond, Kentucky, but at an early age removed to 
Missouri. He served in the Mexican war under Colonel Doniphan of Missouri. In 
1849 he emigrated to California, and came to the Plumas part of Butte before its 
organization into a county. Immediately after the organization he settled in 
Quincy, and assisted County Clerk Harbison in his office during the summer of 
1854. He had been admitted to the bar in Missouri, and on the nineteenth of 
June, 1854, was admitted by Judge Joseph W. McCorkle to practice in the court of 
this district. He was elected district attorney in the fall of 1856, and served 
two years. He was married at Spanish Ranch, October 26, 1857, to Miss Caroline 
F. Doggett, by whom he had four children. Mr. Barnett resided in Quincy until 
1860, when he went to San Jose, where, on the eighth of January, 1880, he 
committed suicide. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 182