Lassen-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Jones, Israel 1838 - 1864
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

HON. ISRAEL JONES.—This gentleman was another of the members of the old Roop
county bar. He was born in the state of New York, August 4, 1838, and read law
for a time before coming to Susanville, where he arrived in 1862. During the
Sage-Brush War, James D. Byers, deputy sheriff of Plumas county, was arrested in
Susanville upon the charge of having obstructed an officer in the discharge of
his duty, by snatching from his hand a warrant of arrest which the official was
about to serve. Young Jones had taken the Plumas side of the controversy, and
now defended Byers, procuring his discharge by producing the warrant in court,
and showing that the Roop county judge had neglected to sign it in his haste to
have it served. This gave Jones considerable popularity, particularly among the
people of Plumas; and in the fall of 1863 he was elected county judge of Plumas
by the Union party. He went to Quincy, to take his seat on the first of January,
1864, but died that very morning, after an illness of but three days. He was
buried with Masonic honors, at Susanville, which order erected a fine monument
to mark his grave. He was a peculiarly. bright and versatile young man, and
destined to make a high mark in the world had his life been spared.



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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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