Butte-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Delancie, Richard 1839 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    RICHARD DELANCIE was born in England, May 15, 1839. In 1847, his parents
came to the United States, landing at New York in June of that year. They
settled near St. Louis, Missouri, where they remained till the spring of 1854,
when they came to California, settling at Evansville, Butte county, which has
since been his home. During his early years on the coast, Mr. DeLancie engaged
in mining, but with indifferent success. He tried his hand at all kinds of work
done in the mines till 1865. In that year he enlisted at Oroville in Co. A.,
First Cavalry volunteers, commanded by Captain E. C. Ledyard. The company was
ordered to Arizona and detailed to act as escort to the commanding general, John
S. Mason. He traveled over all the territory, a great deal of which at that time
was wholly unknown. In 1866, the troops were discharged and he returned to his
home in Butte county, where he worked on his stepfather's farm for some years,
when he began teaching school in Mohawk valley, Plumas county. He taught several
schools in Butte county, and while so engaged became acquainted with and married
Miss Mattie. A. Sherwood, of Crum's ranch, on the twenty-fifth of November,
1872. In the summer of 1875 he was appointed one of the teachers in the Chico
public school, where he taught till March, 1878. Sheriff Sprague then appointed
him under-sheriff, the duties of which office he performed till the fall of
1879, when he was nominated on the republican ticket, and elected treasurer of
Butte county, an office which he still holds, with credit both to himself and
his party. Mr. DeLancie is an open-hearted, genial man, beloved by a large
circle of friends.

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HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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