Plumas County Biographies

Noble C. Cunningham

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

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Captain Cunningham was a native of Ohio. In early life he removed to Missouri, 
where he married and settled. He served his country in the Mexican war, having 
enlisted in Missouri under Colonel Doniphan. Upon his return he went to St. 
Louis, where he lived until 1849, when he came overland to California. After a 
brief sojourn in the mines, he settled in Sacramento, where he was elected 
marshal in 1850, and took an active part in the squatter troubles of that 
summer. Soon after the organization of Plumas county, he came here and engaged 
in merchandising at Long valley, Nelson Point, Round valley, and lastly at 
Taylorville. In 1868 he returned to Missouri, and from there to Texas, where he 
died in 1878. He was for a time captain of the Plumas Rangers. 
 
llustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 302