Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Harbison, John 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   JOHN HARBISON is a native of Missouri, emigrated to this state in 1849, and
settled on the east branch at Smith's bar in the year 1850. For six months he
kept books for the first merchants on the bar, and then engaged in mining.   
When the first convention was held after the organization of the county in 1854,
having been a county clerk in Missouri, his friends on the river, ignoring
politics, instructed their delegates for him, and he secured the nomination for
that office. He had no opponent in the election, and immediately removed to the
American valley to assume the duties of his office, embracing those of clerk,
recorder, and auditor. His office was temporarily established in the old
court-room built by H. J. Bradley, but was subsequently removed to the upper
story of the Bullard building, corner of Harbison avenue and Main street. During
his term he made periodical visits to his old camp on the east branch to take
the declarations of would-be citizens, receiving as his fee an ounce of
gold-dust for each candidate. In the fall of 1854 he was re-elected over James
Lewis of Nelson creek. His first deputy was R. I. Barnett, and his second,
George E. Bricket, a very accomplished officer. Harbison held the office until
March, 1860, when he turned it over to his successor, J. D. Goodwin, who beat
him at the election in 1859. Harbison served as deputy in this office under W.
N. De Haven, and returned to Missouri in 1863, where he now resides.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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