Plumas County Biographies

William T. Byers

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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was born in Columbia, Boone county, Missouri, July 6, 1831, crossed the plains 
in 1850, and arrived at Ringgold, El Dorado county, August 9 of that year. Here 
he engaged in mining. He came to Plumas county June 10, 1863, and kept hotel for 
many years. He was elected county clerk in the fall of 1877, retiring from 
public life in March, 1880. Mr. Byers is one of the most public-spirited men in 
the county, and the people are indebted to him, not only for an efficient 
administration of county affairs during his term of office, but for many 
improvements made in and around the court-house. Mr. Byers now superintends the 
Plumas House in Quincy. Since living in California he has made three trips back 
to Missouri, the last one in 1877.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 185