Plumas County
Biographies
G. Q. Buxton
He is the son of E. G. and Lydia (Chase) Buxton, and was born October 3, 1837, at North Yarmouth, Cumberland county, Maine. His father was engaged in mercantile pursuits at North Yarmouth until 1859, and followed hotel and livery business to the time of his death, in January, 1880. His mother is still living at the same place. Our subject was educated in the schools and academy at Yarmouth. He early manifested a desire to become a sailor; and from the time he was sixteen till twenty-one he went cruising up the Atlantic coast every summer. In 1859 he came to California, via Panama, arriving in San Francisco in April, and proceeded directly to Michigan Bluff, where he mined for four years with good success. He then invested a great deal in bed-rock tunneling at Turkey hill, Placer county, which never proved remunerative until recently. In 1864 he opened a mercantile establishment at Michigan Bluff, and continued it four years, when he went to Cisco, and took charge of a store for two years. In 1870 he visited his home in the east, and remained with his parents a year, when he came to Randolph, Sierra county, and bought the farm and hotel property of H. Northup, consisting of 160 acres of land and the Randolph hotel, both of which he has owned and managed since. In 1876 he bought the stage line running between Truckee and Eureka Mills, which he still operates. He was married May 3, 1865, to Miss Lucetta Salsig of Auburn, Placer county. She was born in St. Joseph county, Michigan, January 23, 1848, and came to California with her parents in 1852. The children of Mr. And Mrs. Buxton are Frank L., born January 6, 1867; infant, born June 30, 1872, died three days later; George E., born June 19, 1875.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 273
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
Isaac S. Church
Mr. Church was born October 25, 1829, at Ferrisburg, Vermont. He came to California, via Panama, in the spring of 1850. He mined a short time at Horse Shoe Bend on the Merced river, and then went to Nelson Point on Nelson creek. He finally went to Downieville, and in 1851 was fluming the river. In the fall he began packing from Marysville, which he followed for ten years. He went east in 1859, returned in 1860, and located in Sierra valley; and has the oldest patent for land in the valley. He was married in Vermont, February 16, 1860 to Sarah Ellen Geer, daughter of Seth and Mary Geer, and by this union they have seven children; viz, Francis S., Charles Pease, Mary Piert, Charlotte Abbie, Albert B., Roxy E. J., and Harriett.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 274
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
J. D. Myers
Mr. Myers was born in Randolph county, Missouri, March 22, 1840. In 1851 his father, Henry K. Myers, died and J. D. being the oldest, the duty of providing for his widowed mother and three other children devolved on him. This he did until his mother married again, in 1860. In 1863 he came overland to California, and crossed Beckwourth summit July 26, 1863. He worked at the carpenter’s trade until the spring of 1867, when he bought a half interest in a planing mill at Randolph, the firm being Rawden & Myers. In 1876 he sold his interest to Rawden, bought a body of pine and fir timber containing 450 acres, three miles south-west of Randolph, and built a water-power saw-mill, which he has since owned and managed. March 10, 1870, he was married to Mary Duvall of Randolph county, Missouri; born July 17, 1850. Their children are Mittie U., born January 13, 1871; Henry Wildey, May 24, 1875; infant son, October 7, 1877, died next day. Mr. Myers is a member of Mountain Vale Lodge No. 140 I. O. O. F.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 274
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
Roy R. Sheer
Mr. Sheer was born at Chesterville, Ohio, July 21, 1854. When he was about sixteen years old his parents removed to Woodford county, Illinois, where they still live. Roy received his education at the public schools of Ohio and Illinois, and at the age of twenty-three came to California by rail, arriving in Sutter county April 26, 1876, where he engaged in farming until the fall of 1881, when he moved to Randolph, and has since made that place his home. He is in the employ of G. Q. Buxton, manager of the Truckee and Plumas Eureka mine stage line and Randolph hotel.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 273
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004
William B. Rawden
The subject of this sketch was born in Voxhall, Surrey county, England, December 21, 1835. He went to sea at the age of twelve, and followed this life for two years, when he landed at Quebec, and went to Connecticut in June, 1849. He came to California in 1855, landing at San Francisco on the first of September. He mined in Calaveras county, and at Alleghany and Forest City, Sierra county, until 1863, when he came to Sierra valley, and took charge of Wood’s store in Randolph. Six months after, he bought Weil’s brewery, and ran it two years, when he gave it up and bought a half-interest in a planing mill at Randolph, his partner being J. D. Myers. They greatly enlarged and improved the mill, and did a fine business. In 1876 he bought out Myers, and since has run it alone. He bought the saw-mill property of James Davidson, two miles from Randolph, in the spring of 1880, where he has 320 acres of fine timber land. He was married November 22, 1870, to Miss M. E. Gates, who was born in Lee county, Illinois, September 11, 1845. Their children are Blanche, Mary Ellen, and Addie L. (deceased). Mr. Rawden is a member of Sierra Valley Lodge No. 184, F. & A. M.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 274
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004