Plumas-Sierra-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Carter, J. S. 1836 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

DR. J. S. CARTER, son of Francis and Ellen Carter, was born in Ohio county,
Virginia, March 31, 1836. His father was a practicing physician, and died in
1841. He attended school at Tuscumbia, Alabama, and at Lexington, Kentucky. In
1853 he went to Missouri, and in 1854 he started from there for California in
the White Star train, owned by himself and four others, bringing out some
blooded horses. About the first of October they reached Downieville, where Dr.
Carter remained two months, and then went to Marysville. From there he moved to
Butte county in a few months, and remained until June, 1855, when he came to
Plumas county and worked all summer on the north fork of the Feather, without
making anything. In the fall of 1856 he made the first discovery of gold on
Mosquito creek while hunting deer. Here he remained until the following August,
when he went back to Missouri for a few months, returning and locating near
Inskip, in Butte county. After mining in various localities, late in the fall of
1862 he came to Plumas county and settled at Crescent Mills, where he has since
resided. In the fall of 1865 he with five others located the Plumas mine. He has
practiced his profession since living at Crescent. He was married January 27,
1880, to Miss Sarah Barker of Indian valley. Dr. Carter is a member of the lodge
of Odd Fellows at Indian valley.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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