Plumas County Biographies

W. N. De Haven

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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a Pennsylvanian by birth, upon his arrival in Plumas county, engaged at 
hotel-keeping at Onion valley. From there he went to Spanish Ranch, in the 
service of Isaac J. Harvey, having charge of the caravansary at that place. He 
was the unconditional-union candidate in 1861 for county clerk, against L. G. 
Traugh, republican, and John D. Goodwin, democratic, over both of whom he was 
victorious. He served until the spring of 1864, when he was succeeded by W. W. 
Kellogg. Captain De Haven was a warm personal friend of both the old clerks, 
Harbison and Goodwin, and made them his deputies, the latter appointment being 
distasteful to his radical supporters. After the close of his term, he clerked 
at Hosselkus & Harvey at Taylorville. He finally went to Chico, and became one 
of the proprietors of the Chico Enterprise. He served a term in the legislature 
from Butte county, and died a few years since at his home in Chico.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 184