Plumas-Placer-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Blough, W. 1826 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

W. BLOUGH, son of John and Mary Blough, was born in Lebanon county,
Pennsylvania, May 15, 1826. At the age of twenty-three he went to Illinois, and
lived there two years and a half. In 1852 he came to California, via the
Isthmus, being 142 days on the voyage from Panama to San Francisco. He spent a
year in Placer county, and then went to Yuba county, where he owned and ran a
grist-mill for two years. In 1856 he sold out and returned to the east, but
repeated his western journey in 1858, and finally settled in Plumas county. He
ran a mill for Judkins & Hard well in American valley for a year, and then
located what is now the Corbin & Mason claim at Elizabethtown; but his company
failed to make anything out of it, though it has since proved rich. He then went
to Quincy, and afterwards to Taylorville, and ran the first mill built in Indian
valley, in which he is now interested. Part of his time has been spent in
building quartz-mills. He was married November 27, 1875, to Mrs. Louisa Batch of
Taylorville. Mr. Blough is a member of Sincerity Lodge No. 132, F. & A. M., at
Taylorville, and of Quincy chapter No. 11.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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