Plumas-El Dorado-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Gentry, J. C. 1829 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

J. C. GENTRY, son of Rodes and Allie (Moore) Gentry, was born May 23, 1829, in
Madison county, Kentucky. His parents removed to Missouri when he was three
years of age. Both his parents died before he had reached the age of fourteen,
but he remained there until eighteen, and then went to the mining regions of
Wisconsin. In March, 1850, he came overland to California, arriving at Coloma,
July 18, 1850, where he mined six months. He afterwards spent several months in
Calaveras and Butte counties, and in 1851 was engaged in butchering at Natchez,
in the latter county. In six months he sold out and mined for some time. Then he
went into the stock business, and alternated between mining and stock-raising
for two years or more. In March, 1854, Mr. Gentry came to Plumas county and
opened a meat market on Hopkins creek. Shortly after, with a Mr. Blanks, he
started a hotel, which they ran for three years, and then Gentry bought out his
partner, and continued alone one year. In 1858 he mined between Hopkins and
Poorman's creeks. On the sixteenth of February a snow-slide carried the log
cabin, occupied by himself and family and three men, half a mile down the canon,
crushing and instantly killing William Gentry, his infant son, and injuring one
of his partners, John Wilson, so badly that he died. All of them were more or
loss hurt, and were nearly suffocated before they could extricate themselves. It
was a night of horror, and Mr. Gentry's trip to Hopkins for aid in his
night-clothes makes a thrilling narrative of suffering. In 1858 he went into the
dairy business, and a year after began farming, which he followed three years,
and then sold out and mined for five years. In 1867 he was elected county
treasurer on the republican ticket, and after his retirement from office bought
a ranch in American valley, on which he lived six years, and then bought part of
the Jobe Taylor ranch, near Taylorville, where he now resides. He was married
July 4, 1854, to Miss S. Turner, by whom he has had six children, four of whom
are living.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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