Plumas County Biographies

Marion C. Bringham

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Oct 2004

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He was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, October 22, 1857. His father came to 
Plumas county when he was two years old, and settled at Eureka North as a 
millwright. In 1861 his father, with Benjamin Bobo, located 320 acres of land 
ten miles east of Beckwourth, where he remained with his family until 1865, when 
he sold out his interest, removed to Beckwourth, and built the Bringham hotel, 
which he owned and managed until 1881. Since that time Marion has been a partner 
in and manager of the business. He owns a quarter section of land adjoining the 
town of Beckwourth, while his father owns the farm of 320 acres on which the 
hotel property stands. July 4, 1877, he was married to Miss Hattie E. Trimble, 
of Sierra valley, by whom he has had one child, Mabel Jeannette, born October 
12, 1879
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 262