Plumas-Yuba-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Battelle, T. S. 1812 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

T. S. BATTELLE.—This is one of the early settlers in the valley. He was born in
Washington county, Ohio, August 20, 1812. His father, Ebenezer Battelle, was one
of the earliest settlers of that state, and died in his ninety-eighth year. When
twenty-two years of age, our subject went to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and dealt
in merchandise for three years. Then he spent another three years in the same
business at Clarksburg, Virginia, and several years at Muscatine, boating on the
Mississippi In 1852 he came overland to California, and farmed two years near
Marysville. In 1854 he came to the Sierra valley, and located a ranch of 480
acres close to Sierraville, where he has since lived. He was married August 29,
1833, to Grace A. Fleming of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and she died June 19,
1849. By her he had eight children, three of whom are living. On the first of
March, 1850, he was again married, to Louisa Anderson of Pennsylvania, who died
October 26, 1870. Mr. Battelle was married a third time, April 25, 1872, to Mrs.
S. L. West of Waseca, Minnesota.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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