Plumas County Biographies

Theodore F. Emmons

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

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son of Jeremiah and Martha Emmons, was born at Chester, Morris county, New 
Jersey, in July, 1829, where he lived with his parents until March, 1853, when 
he started for California, via the Isthmus, landing in San Francisco, April, 
1853.  He soon began sluice-mining on Poorman’s creek, in company with others, 
and sometimes with his sluice-fork caught nuggets so large as not to be able to 
pass between its prongs.  He mined two years, and then opened a store which he 
ran one year.  In 1856 he went to Indian valley and bought the Hall ranch of 800 
acres, which he sold in 1857.  In 1867 he settled in Greenville, where he has 
since lived.  In 1871 he was elected justice of the peace of Indian township, 
and in 1873 was elected county surveyor by the republicans.  In 1875 he was 
again made a justice of the peace, to which he has been twice re-elected, and 
still holds the office.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. – Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 300-301