Plumas County
Biographies
Hon. A. P. Moore
is a native of Ohio. He came to Plumas county from Marysville prior to 1858, and engaged as clerk and book-keeper for Jerry Ford, a Quincy merchant. He was married December 27, 1858, by Rev. P. Grove, to Miss Anna E. Martin, daughter of Reuben T. and Letitia M. Martin of Mississippi. He then opened a mercantile establishment with Harlow Pierson, but the firm failed in business. He subsequently made a mercantile venture in Quincy on his own account, and was reasonably successful. In January, 1864, he was appointed by Governor Low to fill the position of county judge left vacant by the sudden death of Israel Jones, and held the office till January, 1866, when he was succeeded by E. T. Hogan. Judge Moore was the democratic candidate for county judge in the fall of 1869, and was elected by thirty majority over G. C. Charles, the republican candidate. He presided over the sessions of the court till 1874, when E. T. Hogan became his successor a second time. Judge Moore was an old-line whig, and upon the breaking out of the war, espoused the cause of the Union. He was a republican until President Johnson’s administration, when he went over to the democracy. His record as county judge was very fair, and for one not bred a lawyer, acquitted himself creditably. He always took an active part in politics. In 1872, he sold out his Quincy business, and upon his retirement from office, opened a store at Oakland. He is now merchandising at Geyserville, Sonoma county.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. –
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 179-180
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
Judge Charles Fayette Lott
was born July 1, 1824, at the village of Pemberton, Burlington county, New Jersey. His father was Dr. Charles Francis Lott, medical director and assistant adjutant-general in the war of 1812. When a very small boy he went with his parents to Trenton, and in 1836 accompanied them to Quincy, Illinois, from where they emigrated to St. Louis in a short time, and Charles went to school to Elihu H. Shepherd, the great educator of boys in that city. In the course of time he and his brother attended St. Charles college; and in 1840 Charles entered the St. Louis university, from which he graduated in December, 1845. He studied law with Judge Archibald Williams at Quincy, and was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Illinois, June 5, 1848. After practicing law a year, Mr. Lott came overland and reached California in September, 1849. He settled at Long’s bar, in Butte county, engaging actively in mining. He assisted in the organization of the county, and has been prominently concerned in the legal proceedings before the courts, without intermission, to the present time. In 1851 he was elected senator from Butte county, serving in the third and fourth sessions of the legislature. In 1869 Mr. Lott was nominated by the democrats of the second judicial district for judge, and was elected over Judge Sexton, serving one term. Since that time he has been an active practitioner of law, and is also extensively engaged in mining in Plumas county. He is a man of high culture and broad intellectuality, being widely known and respected. He was married in May, 1856, to Miss Susan F. Hyer, by whom he had three children, two of whom are living with him at Oroville.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. –
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 176-177
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
Judge Edmund Thomas Hogan
This gentleman, for many years county judge of Plumas county, was born in the state of New York, while his parents, who were residents of the state of Virginia, were temporarily residing there. He was educated for the bar at Mansfield, Ohio, where he read law with some of the best legal talent of the state. He came to California in 1852, and to Plumas county in 1854, settling in Elizabethtown, where he hung out his lawyer’s shingle. He often refers good-naturedly to the first employment he received in Plumas county, which was to drive a band of hogs for John W. Thompson. He ran for district attorney in 1856, and was beaten by the know-nothing nominee Robert L. Barnett, by only three majority. He was elected county judge in 1857 on the democratic ticket, over P. O. Hundley and L. G. Traugh. In 1861 he was re-elected, defeating A. F. Blood, the republican nominee. Again he was elected in 1865, over L. C. Charles; but in 1869 he failed to get the nomination. He was again successful at the election of 1873, defeating Thomas F. Hersey for the judgeship. Judge Hogan was defeated by G. G. Clough for superior judge in 1879. He still resides in Quincy. Judge Hogan is a great story-teller, and has a wonderful memory, being able to recite the political history of the county from Alpha to Omega, without fear of contradiction. He is a very strong partisan; and his political affiliations with the democratic party are inseparable.
SOURCE: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. –
Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 179
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004