Plumas County Biographies

LaFayett Cate M. D.

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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This gentleman is the pioneer physician of the county. He is a native of New 
Hampshire, and graduated at the Vermont Medical College. He came to Plumas in 
1854, and settled at Elizabethtown, and engaged in the practice of his 
profession. He has devoted much of his attention to mining enterprises, as well 
as to his profession. He has always enjoyed a full share of practice, and still 
resides in Quincy. Upon the resignation of County Treasurer Chapman, in 
December, 1878, Dr. Cate was appointed to fill the vacancy, and served in that 
office until March, 1880, when he retired from public life, and is quietly 
pursuing the practice of his profession in Quincy. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 284