Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Emmons, Theodore F. 1829 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

THEODORE F. EMMONS, son of Jeremiah and Martha Emmons, was born at Chester,
Morris county, New Jersey, in July, 1829, where he lived with his parents until
March, 1853, when he started for California, via the Isthmus, landing in San
Francisco, April, 1853. He soon began sluice-mining on Poorman's creek, in
company with others, and sometimes with his sluice-fork caught nuggets so large
as not to be able to pass between its prongs. He mined two years, and then
opened a store which he ran one year. In 1856 he went to Indian valley and
bought the Hall ranch of 800 acres, which he sold in 1857. In 1867 he settled in
Greenville, where he has since lived. In 1871 he was elected justice of the
peace of Indian township, and in 1873 was elected county surveyor by the
republicans. In 1875 he was again made a justice of the peace, to which he has
been twice re-elected, and still holds the office.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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