Plumas-Amador-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Hundley, Patrick Oglesby 1822 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

PATRICK OGLESBY HUNDLEY is a native of Amelia county, East Virginia, where he
was born April 13, 1822. In the fall of 1838 he went to Greensburg, Kentucky,
and in 1846 was admitted to practice at law. He engaged in the practice of his
profession, and in the fall of 1847 matriculated at the university of
Louisville, from which he graduated in March, 1849, receiving the degree of B.
L. In April, 1849, he left Green county, Kentucky, for California, arriving at
Sacramento October 10, 1849. In November he went to the mines in Amador county,
and remained at Drytown till June, 1850, when he removed to Deer creek, Nevada
county. In the fall of 1851 he purchased an interest in the Rough and Ready
quartz-mine, on Jamison creek, then in Butte county. He sunk all his means in
this mine, and left the mountains in 1852. In 1853 he commenced the practice of
law at Gibsonville, and in 1854 removed to Quincy. He was admitted to the bar of
Plumas in May, 1855. In the fall of that year, September 2, he was married to
Catherine T. Russell, daughter of Henry P. Russell, in American valley. Mr.
Hundley served one term as supervisor from district No. 2, resigning in March,
1856. He then associated himself in the practice of law at Quincy with Thomas E.
Hayden. He was the whig nominee for county judge in 1857, but was defeated at
the election. In 1859 he was elected to the assembly on the Breckenridge
democratic ticket, and in 1861 was elected by the democrats to the office of
district attorney. In November, 1863, he resigned this office and went to
Virginia City, Nevada, where he opened a law office. In 1869 he went to
Oroville, and in 1875 was the democratic nominee for district judge, but was
defeated by Judge Sexton. Upon the death of the latter in April, 1878, he was
appointed to fill the vacancy, and in 1879 was elected superior judge of Butte
county, a position he now holds.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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