Plumas County Biographies

W. Blough

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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son of John and Mary Blough, was born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, May 15, 
1826. At the age of twenty-three he went to Illinois, and lived there two years 
and a half. In 1852 he came to California, via the Isthmus, being 142 days on 
the voyage from Panama to San Francisco. He spent a year in Placer county, and 
then went to Yuba county, where he owned and ran a grist-mill for two years. In 
1856 he sold out and returned to the east, but repeated his western journey in 
1858, and finally settled in Plumas county. He ran a mill for Judkins & Hardwell 
in American valley for a year, and then located what is now the Corbin & Mason 
claim at Elizabethtown; but his company failed to make anything out of it, 
though it has since proved rich. He then went to Quincy, and afterwards to 
Taylorville, and ran the first mill built in Indian valley, in which he is now 
interested. Part of his time has been spent in building quartz-mills. He was 
married November 27, 1875 to Mrs. Louisa Batch of Taylorville. Mr. Blough is a 
member of Sincerity Lodge No. 132, F. & A. M., at Taylorville, and of Quincy 
chapter No. 11. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 309