Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Humphrey, George Wilson 1834 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

GEORGE WILSON HUMPHREY.—He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Lufkin) Humphrey;
was born in Cumberland county, Maine, June 8, 1834. He left the school of his
native town in 1852, and came to California. The first two years he spent in the
Sacramento valley, clerking a portion of the time. Early in the spring of 1854
he went to the mountains, and drove cattle for two years, living at Forest City.
He then clerked for a time at Smith's flat, near what is now Alleghany. In the
spring of 1855 he had been employed on Langton's pioneer express as a rider, and
after a time established a saddle-train business on his own account, carrying
the mail and express until 1859, when he moved his headquarters to Sierra
valley, and ran a stage line to Virginia City, connecting with his saddle-train
to Downieville. These he conducted until the completion of the Central Pacific
railroad over the mountains. In 1864 he purchased and began to reside on the
ranch he now owns. It consists of 1,500 acres of land, and he handles from one
to two thousand head of cattle annually. Mr. Humphrey was married October 27,
1862, to Edith A. Lockhart, daughter of William and: Mary A. Lockhart of
Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where she was born September 18, 1844. Their
children are Henrietta Elizabeth, born October 10, 1864; John E., September
17,1866; Frank E., July 9, 1868; May Josephine, July 28, 1870; Herbert, January
3, 1872; James L., January 16, 1874; Jacob Butler, April 22, 1876; Susan
Winnefred, March 22, 1878; infant daughter, July 7, 1881. Mr. Humphrey's present
residence and buildings were erected in 1879, a view of which may be seen elsewhere.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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