Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Keddie, Arthur W. 1835 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

ARTHUR W. KEDDIE.—He was born in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1842, and was brought
by his parents to America in the following year, and settled in Ontario county,
Canada, where he lived till 1863. He was educated to the profession of land
surveyor, and served under a provincial land surveyor in the town of Whitby, the
county seat of Ontario county, the three years' apprenticeship required by the
provincial laws. He passed his examinations successfully before the provincial
board of examiners in the city of Toronto. Immediately on attaining his
majority, he left Canada for California, via Panama, arriving in San Francisco
September 8, 1863. His first work in the state was the compiling of Holt's map
of California and Nevada. He went to Plumas county in 1864, to survey the road
between Indian and American valleys, and was afterward employed in making
preliminary surveys of a railroad line from Oroville, via the north fork of
Feather river, American valley, and Beckwourth pass, to Reno. In 1869 he
returned to Canada (on the first train on the C. P. R. R.), married the eldest
daughter of William Barnes, Esq. of Whitby, but soon returned to California, and
has since been resident of Quincy. He has several times been elected county
surveyor of Plumas. Mr. Keddie is a P. G. of the Odd Fellows lodge, and is now,
and has been for the past five years, Master of Plumas Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M.
He is a United States deputy surveyor, notary public, etc.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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