Plumas-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Dean, Wilson Seaman 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

WILSON SEAMAN DEAN, the second county treasurer of Plumas county, was elected in
the fall of 1854. He was one of the early emigrants, and settled in Plumas, then
a part of Butte county, in May, 1851. He bought what now constitutes the Meadow
Valley ranch, and opened a store at that place. In the fall of 1852 he
encountered a rival in the firm of Clark, Wagner, & Co., who opened a store near
by him. The trade was thus divided; and in the fall of 1854 Mr. Dean moved to
Quincy, where he has since lived. In the fall of 1855 he visited his home in
Illinois, leaving the treasury affairs in the hands of his deputy, Arron
Bradbury. Bradbury at that time was surrounded by vicious associates, who led
him into "ways that were dark," the result being that when Dean returned he
found a considerable shortage waiting him, which taxed him sorely to make good.
However, he left a square record as treasurer. Mr. Dean was deputy sheriff under
I. C. Boring until 1880. He was one of the three commissioners to organize the
county in 1854.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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