Lassen-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Ward, John S. 1825 - 1872
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   HON. JOHN S. WARD.—This gentleman took a very prominent part in the efforts
of the citizens to form a county government in this section. He was born at
Vergennes, Vermont, December 16, 1825, and came to the coast in an early day,
having lived in Indiana and Wisconsin. His father came to California in 1853,
and settled in Indian valley, Plumas county, where the father, Hon. William T.
Ward, became the first county judge. John came in 1855, and settled in Honey
Lake valley in 1858, and was admitted to the practice of the law by Judge Gordon
N. Mott,of Nevada Territory, in July, 1862. The following December he was
appointed probate judge of Roop county, by the governor of Nevada Territory, and
held that position through the conflict for jurisdiction known as the Sage-Brush
War. He devoted himself studiously to his books, and soon ranked among the best
lawyers in this section of the state; and had he lived, his career would have
been a brilliant one, so full of promise was it when he was cut down in the
prime of life. He died in Susanville in 1872, and was buried with honors and
imposing ceremonies by the Odd Fellows and Masonic orders. In 1871 he went to
Washington, and secured the establishment of a U. S. land office at Susanville,
of which he was appointed Register. He was married at Madison, Wisconsin,
January 1, 1849, to Miss Anna E. Hyer. Of their children, two were born in
Wisconsin—T. H., September 25, 1851, and Jennie S., January 16, 1755; one in
Plumas county, California—Frank G;, February 5, 1857; the others in Lassen
county—Charles E., September 13, 1859; Annie H., October 13, 1861; William C.,
September 10, 1868. Jennie S. married Hon. John S. Chapman, January 1, 1871. T.
H. married Miss Wileta Edwards, February 16, 1872. Frank G. married Miss Ada
Myers, in September 1876. Annie H. married Hon. J. W. Hendrick, January 1, 1878.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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