Plumas County
Biographies
B. B. Baugh,
son of A. B. and C. L. Baugh, was born in Powhatan county, Virginia, August 18, 1827. At the age of twenty-two he became one of the argonautic 49ers who crossed the plains to the Pacific coast, and first mined at Stringtown, on the south fork of Feather river, in the winter of 1849, being the one to erect the first house in the place. He mined at various camps until 1855, when he came to Plumas county, where he since resided, with the exception of a year spent in Virginia City, Nevada. He has been engaged principally in the liquor business at Meadow valley, and at Crescent, his present home. In politics he is democratic.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850.
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 310
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004
Charles Otto Simons,
son of Horace P. and Harriett Simons, was born April 9, 1859, at South Bend, Indiana. He learned the trade of upholsterer in Chicago, and in 1874 went to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he remained three years. In 1877 he came to California, and to Taylorville in January, 1878. The next three years were spent in Taylorville, Watsonville, Oakland, Folsom, and Oakdale, Stanislaus county. At the last place he opened a furniture store, which he sold out in the fall of 1881, and came to Greenville, opening an upholstering shop, which he is now conducting.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850.
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 311
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004
Duskin Hedrick
was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, January 12, 1840. Duskin remained in Iowa engaged in farming, after reaching the age of discretion, until twenty-four years of age, when he came to California in 1864, arriving in Honey Lake valley, Lassen county, September 27. For the next four years he was engaged in quartz-mining at Crescent and in Genesee valley, after which he bought eighty acres of land near Crescent, and has lived on it since. He added forty acres to his farm in 1880. He was married December 31, 1862, at Keokuk, Iowa, to Miss Louisa Johnson. Their children are Winona, born November 14, 1863; Cora, May 13, 1866; Elfreda, September 15, 1867; Orlanda, January 18, 1870; Florence, July 19, 1871; Mabel, December 6, 1873; Gertrude, August 21, 1876; Arthur, July 27, 1878. Mr. Hedrick is a member of Indian Valley Lodge No. 136, I. O. O. F.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850.
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 310
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004
George H. Herring,
son of Bryant and Piercy Herring, was born in Hayward county, Tennessee, June 13, 1834. When nine years of age his parents moved to Yell county, Arkansas, and engaged in farming. In the spring of 1859 George came across the plains with an ox-team, arriving in Plumas county in September. He became interested in a mining claim on Rich gulch, and worked it until the next summer. He worked on a farm in Indian valley for six months, spent six months in Colusa county, and some time after bought eighty acres of land near Crescent, which he lived on four years, and sold to D. S. Hedrick. He returned to Arkansas in 1868, but came back in 1870, and a year after purchased the Hussey ranch of 200 acres in the north arm of Indian valley, on which he has since lived. He was married January 8, 1873, to Miss Sylvia Johnson of Davis county, Iowa. Their children are Stella, born November 20, 1873; Ada, February 12, 1875; Charles, March 31, 1877; Marcus, December 12, 1878; Earl, April 12, 1881all of whom are living.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850.
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 309-310
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004
J. Charles Taylor
was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, May 24, 1859. While a small boy he lived in Iowa three years, where his father died in 1868. Then he returned to Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1870 came overland, with his mother and two brothers, to California, arriving at Quincy May 4, 1870. In the fall they went to Crescent Mills, and in April, 1872, to Greenville, where our subject has since resided. From the time of the marriage of his elder brother, William M. Taylor, in 1876, Charles has been the head of the family. March 15, 1875, he became an operator in the Greenville telegraph office, and on the first of April, 1881, he was appointed manager of the office.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850.
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 311
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004