Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Chambers, Robert Craig 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

ROBERT CRAIG CHAMBERS, the third sheriff of Plumas county, is a native of Ohio,
and came to California in the year 1850. His first mining in Plumas was on the
east branch at Rich bur. He then tried ranching in American valley, and was
afterwards in the service of Clark, Shannon, & Co., at Meadow valley. Mr.
Chambers was the democratic candidate in the fall of 1856 for sheriff against J.
D. Byers, the know-nothing candidate, and S. J. Clark, the first republican
candidate in Plumas. Chambers and Clark were both defeated. Our subject again
appeared in the field in 1858, and obtained the shrievalty over his opponent, L.
C. Charles. He was re-elected in 1859, but was succeeded in 1861 by Elisha H.
Pierce. He then resided in Meadow valley, being the assignee of the bankrupt
firm of Clark, Shannon, & Co., and afterwards superintended the Plumas or
Whitney quartz-mine until it proved a failure. He subsequently became identified
with the Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Company, and remained in the state
until it collapsed, and then went to Utah, where he now resides.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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