Plumas-Sierra-Placer County CA Archives Biographies.....Buxton, G. Q. 1837 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

G. Q. BUXTON.—He is the son of E. G. and Lydia (Chase) Buxton, and was born
October 3, 1837, at North Yarmouth, Cumberland county, Maine. His father was
engaged in mercantile pursuits at North Yarmouth until 1859, and followed hotel
and livery business to the time of his death, in January, 1880. His mother is
still living at the same place. Our subject was educated in the schools and
academy at Yarmouth. He early manifested a desire to become a sailor; and from
the time he was sixteen till twenty-one he went cruising up the Atlantic coast
every summer. In 1859 he came to California, via Panama, arriving in San
Francisco in April, and proceeded directly to Michigan Bluff, where he mined for
four years with good success. He then invested a great deal in bed-rock
tunneling at Turkey hill, Placer county, which never proved remunerative until
recently. In 1864 he opened a mercantile establishment at Michigan Bluff, and
continued it four years, when he went to Cisco, and took charge of a store for
two years. In 1870 he visited his home in the east, and remained with his
parents a year, when he came to Randolph, Sierra county, and bought the farm and
hotel property of H. North up, consisting of 160 acres of land and the Randolph
hotel, both of which he has owned and managed since. In 1876 he bought the stage
line running between Truckee and Eureka Mills, which he still operates. He was
married May 3, 1865, to Miss Lucetta Salsig of Auburn, Placer county. She was
born in St. Joseph county, Michigan, January 23, 1848, and came to California
with her parents in 1852. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Buxton are Frank L., born
January 6, 1867; infant, born June 30, 1872, died three days after; George E.,
born June 19, 1875.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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