Butte-Sierra-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Wagoner, Lewis 1829 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    LEWIS WAGONER was born in Knox county, Ohio, April 26, 1825, where he lived
until twenty-four years of age. In April, 1849, he started overland for
California, arriving above Steep Hollow, on Bear creek, in the month of August
of that year. From there Mr. Wagoner went to Rose bar, on the Yuba, and ran a
bakery and boarding-house until January, 1850, when he went to Bear river. He
was at Downieville during a large part of the year. In the spring of 1851 he
took up a claim in Plumas county, which he has held thirty years. From 1851 to
1858 he was engaged in packing and selling merchandise. He packed goods between
Rich bar, on East branch, and Meadow valley, and passed through some pretty
rough experience. He afterwards engaged in farming, which continues to be his
sole occupation, and since 1858 has traded extensively in cattle. He came to
Butte county in March, 1881, when he purchased his present residence. Mr.
Wagoner was married in Oroville, in 1858, to Lucy Culver, a native of Vermont.
She died in June, 1876. He was again married, on the fourteenth of July, 1880,
to Miss Annie Stewart, who is proud of having been born, raised and married near
Yuba city, Sutter county. Mr. and Mrs. Wagoner's present residence was formerly
owned by Thomas Dignen.

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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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