Plumas-Nevada-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Firmstone, H. T. 1823 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

H. T. FIRMSTONE was born at Plymouth, England, in the year 1831. At the age of
seventeen he came to the copper mines on Lake Huron, where he worked for three
years. In 1852 he came to California, via the Isthmus, landing in San Francisco
on the first of August. Until 1854 he mined in Nevada, Yuba, and Sierra
counties. On one occasion, while trudging on foot with a companion from Grass
valley to Sweetland, in Nevada county, his friend gave out, and he packed him,
with two mining outfits, four miles to their destination. In 1854 he came to
Plumas, holding positions, in companies at Round valley, Brownsville, and in
Indian valley. At Brownsville he was superintendent of the Pennsylvania company
for two years. In 1880 he engaged in the liquor business at Greenville, which he
at the present time follows. In 1867 he was married to Miss Maria Hickerson of
Indian valley. They have had three children: Henry, born February 28, 18G8;
John, July 10, 1870; Robert, September 10, 1876. He is a member of the Blue
Lodge No. 132, F. & A. M., and of the Indian Valley Lodge No. 136, I. O. O. F.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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