Plumas-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Beaton, Alexander 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

ALEXANDER BEATON.—He is a native of Cumberland county, Nova Scotia. His parents
were Francis and Janet Beaton, of Scotch nativity. Alexander worked on a farm
until twenty-six years of age, and then lived for a time in Boston, New York,
and other places. In 1866 he came to California, via Panama, and settled in
Tuolumne county, where he was engaged in teaming. In 1870 he bought his present
home in Sierra valley, which consists of 160 acres of grazing land. Mr. Beaton
was married December 11, 1870, to Mrs. Elvira M. Colby, widow of Hiram T. Colby,
and a native of Vermont, where she was first married. Her children by the first
marriage are Elvie A., born September 20, 1857, and Leland A., born October 11,
1866. Mr. Beaton's children are Arial F., born December 12, 1871, and Hattie L.,
born June 19, 1874. Mr. Beaton is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Sierraville.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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