Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Hamlen, E. H. 1836 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 11, 2006, 8:43 pm Author: Fariss & Smith (1882) E. H. HAMLEN.—This gentleman was born in Kennebec county, Maine, January 16, 1836. On the thirty-first of December, 1856, he started for California, coming via the Isthmus, and arriving at San Francisco January 29, 1857. He was engaged in mining and lumbering for two years, in Alleghany, Sierra county. In June, 1859, he came to Sierra valley and purchased the Higgins farm of 540 acres, on which he lived most of the time until 1875, when he went to Roop county, Nevada, and with three others purchased a large stock range and the Buffalo Pass toll road. They have since dealt heavily in cattle. Mr. Hamlen moved over there, and remained until August, 1881, when he returned to his farm in Sierra valley. He was united in marriage October 9, 1865, to Mrs. Hattie E. Heselton of Stratham, New Hampshire, by whom he has had three children: Edmund H., born November 11, 1866; Calvin M., born December 10, 1568; and Rose E., born July 30,1871. Mr. Hamlen is a member of Sierraville Lodge No. 184, F. & A. M. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties San Francisco: Fariss & Smith (1882) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/plumas/bios/hamlen353nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb