Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Cate, Daniel Rogers 1832 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

DANIEL ROGERS CATE, the first treasurer of Plumas county, was born at
Northfield, Merrimack county, New Hampshire, November 24, 1832, and is the son
of Simon and Lydia (Durgin) Cate, both natives of New Hampshire. When fifteen
years old his father died, and Daniel went to work the following year in a
country store. At nineteen he went to Boston and clerked most of the time until
October, 1849, when he came, via Panama, to California, arriving at the port of
San Francisco on the first of December. In a few days he went to Stockton, and
had the misfortune to lose by fire everything he possessed except the clothes he
wore. He accepted the first job that offered, boating goods from Stockton to the
French camp, receiving an ounce a day for his services. The winter of 1850-51 he
spent in Central America, and upon his return in the spring he went to
Downieville. Here he engaged in all kinds of mining, from fluming the Yuba to
working a drift-claim on Durgan flat for one year; and then, with his partners,
E. W. Judkins and Joseph S. Boynton, came to his present home in American
valley. Soon after settlement, he with others built a saw-mill on Mill creek.
Mr. Boynton retiring, Mr. Judkins and Mr. Cate afterwards built the Plumas flour
and saw mills. The first store and blacksmith-shop in American valley were kept
at their ranch in the fall of 1852, by Judkins & Cate. In the spring of 1853 Mr.
Cate began packing merchandise from Marysville to the store in American valley,
and continued it until 1856, since which time he has devoted most of his
attention to his farm. While engaged in packing, he once became snow-blind, from
which his eyes never fully recovered. Mr. Cate was elected county treasurer of
Plumas county in April, 1854, being the first to hold that position. He was
married November 5, 1863, to Miss Hannah A. Loring, daughter of John H. and Ann
B. (Trafter) Loring, a native of Somerset county, Maine, where she was born
January 18, 1844. They have had five children, as follows: Alice Lydia, born
November 26, 1864; Mary Louise, October 9, 1869; Henry Loring, May 21, 1871;
Lafayette, June 29, 1875; Daniel Rogers, November 17, 1880.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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