Plumas-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Flournoy, Robert S. 1830 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

ROBERT S. FLOURNOY, son of Roland and Margaret Flournoy, was born June 26, 1830,
at Independence, Missouri. He received his education at private schools, there
being very limited facilities for education at public schools. In 1849 he came
to California, leaving home in the fall, and arriving at San Francisco April 8,
1850. He went to Bidwell's bar, Butte county, and mined in that vicinity for
three years. In December, 1853, he came to American valley, and began mining at
Elizabethtown, two miles north-west of Quincy. He remained here, mining and
carrying on a liquor business, for about four years. In the fall of 1858 he went
to Indian valley, where he rented the Blood ranch, and worked it one season. He
then bought the Cook ranch, now the Evans ranch, and lived on it four years,
when he sold it in the fall of 1863, and bought the Madden, now the Drodge,
ranch. This he finally sold, and in the spring of 1865 moved into Taylorville,
ran a pack-train for a while, and then bought the Mead ranch, in Genesee valley,
where he now lives. He was married November 28, 1855, to Miss Angelina Varner,
at Elizabethtown. They have had seven children, as follows: Maggie, Fannie,
John, Lucy, Harley, Timey, and William; Lucy, John, and Fannie died in 1865,
within a few days of each other.



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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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