Plumas County Biographies

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta Jun 2009

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Illustrated History of PLUMAS, LASSEN & SIERRA Counties
with CALIFORNIA from 1513 to 1850, Farriss & Smith , 1882, San Francisco.


WILLIAM S. CHURCH. - He was the eldest son of James C. Church, who settled in 
American valley before the organization of Plumas county. William S. was born in 
Kentucky. In 1873 he was elected county superintendent of schools on the 
democratic ticket, and was re-elected in 1875. He taught school in various 
districts of Plumas county until 1880, when he prepared himself for the law, and 
was admitted to practice in the supreme court in the winter of that year, when 
he opened a law office at La Porte, where he now resides.