Plumas County Biographies

Robert Craig Chambers

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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the third sheriff of Plumas county, is a native of Ohio, and came to California 
in the year 1850. His first mining in Plumas was on the east branch at Rich bar. 
He then tried ranching in American valley, and was afterwards in the service of 
Clark, Shannon, & Co., at Meadow valley. Mr. Chambers was the democratic 
candidate in the fall of 1856 for sheriff against J. D. Byers, the know-nothing 
candidate, and S. J. Clark, the first republican candidate in Plumas. Chambers 
and Clark were both defeated. Our subject again appeared in the field in 1858, 
and obtained the shrievalty over his opponent, L. C. Charles. He was re-elected 
in 1859, but was succeeded in 1861 by Elisha H. Pierce. He then resided in 
Meadow valley, being the assignee of the bankrupt firm of Clark, Shannon, & Co., 
and afterwards superintended the Plumas or Whitney quartz-mine until it proved a 
failure. He subsequently became identified with the Oroville and Virginia City 
Railroad Company, and remained in the state until it collapsed, and then went to 
Utah, where he now resides. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 186