Lassen-El Dorado-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Fry, George W. 1834 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

GEORGE W. FRY.—This gentleman was born January 22, 1834, in Stark county, Ohio.
He lived there and in Ashland county until February, 1852, when he started for
California, via Panama, arriving in June. For six years he mined in El Dorado,
Yuba, Sierra, and Plumas counties. In November, 1858, he went into the stock
business in Honey Lake valley, locating near Janesville. In 1864 he sold this
place and bought his present ranch, twenty miles east of Susanville, on the
river, and in the Tule Confederacy. He has now 640 acres of hay and agricultural
land, all fenced and improved. Politically, Mr. Fry is a democrat. October 28,
1870, he married Mrs. Louisa De Witt, born in Hallowell, Maine, October 2, 1839.
She was the widow of Franklin De Witt, by whom she had five children: Arthur F.,
born in Iowa, May 17, 1859; Carrie E., Iowa, March 8, 1862; Walter B., Honey
Lake valley, October 22, 1864; Oscar M., Honey Lake valley, December 31, 1865;
George Orrin, Honey Lake valley, December 22, 1867. She has borne to Mr. Fry
three children, all in Honey Lake valley: William Herbert, May 26, 1872; Harvey
Ray, April 7, 1876; Cora Bell, November 7, 1877. Carrie was married in January,
1877, to S. C. Whitten, and resides in Modoc county.



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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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