Butte-Mariposa-Trinity County CA Archives Biographies.....Shipley, R. 1827 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    R. SHIPLEY.—His parents were farmers in Sullivan county, Tennessee, where
the subject of this sketch was born in the year 1827. When twenty years old, he
volunteered as a soldier in the Mexican war, serving fourteen months. On his
return from Mexico he went to Tennessee, but the spirit of unrest impelled him
to seek for happiness and gold in California. He came overland in 1850, and
mined for six months in Mariposa county; then at Bidwell's bar and Rich bar in
1851, and again at Bidwell in 1852;, and at Yankee bar in 1853. The year 1854
found him at Frenchtown. In 1855, he mined at Bolt's hill, Trinity county, and
on Mosquito creek; in 1857—58, at Frenchtown; and from that time to the present
he has resided in Kimshew township. Since 1863 he has lived in Dogtown.

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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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