Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Glass, Samuel And Louis 1800 - 1871
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    SAMUEL AND LOUIS GLASS.—Samuel Glass, one of the first locators of the
Cherokee mine, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the year 1800. When a
young man he removed to Zanesville, Ohio, where for a time he followed boating
on the rivers. The failure of the United States bank at that city so injured his
business that he abandoned it and resided for some years in Delaware. In 1849,
he came to California, subsequently settling at Cherokee flat, in Butte county,
where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1871.

    Louis Glass, secretary of the Spring Valley Hydraulic Gold Company, a son of
Samuel Glass, is a native of the state of Delaware. He removed to California in
1861, and in 1871 entered upon the duties of secretary of the Spring Valley
Mining Company. In 1875, he became secretary of the Spring Valley Mining and
Irrigating Company, a consolidation of the Cherokee mines. The new mining
company came into existence in 1881, and at present he is secretary of both. He
was married in 1872, to Miss Frankie Perkins, of San Buenaventura county. He is
a man of fine abilities and stands high both socially and as a business man. He
is a member of the Table Mountain Lodge, F. & A. M., at Cherokee, and of the
Royal Arch Chapter and Commandery of Knights Templar at Oroville.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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