Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Laufman, Cyrus 1830 - 1878
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   CYRUS LAUFMAN, son of Jacob and Margaret Laufman, was born in Franklin
county, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1830: His father moved to Illinois when Cyrus
was eight years of age, and settled in Edgar county, where he carried on a
tanning business. He left for California April 30, 1849, and arrived at Beer
creek in October. He mined on Feather river during the winter, and as soon as he
could travel in the spring started out with hundreds of others to find
Stoddard's Gold lake, arriving in Plumas county, at Nelson Point, about the last
of April. In May be came over into American valley, in company with half a dozen
others, searching for Rich bar, of which Hobbs, one of the party, had been given
an inkling by a brother Mason. They failed to find it however, and returned to
Nelson creek, but in a couple of weeks it became generally known where Rich bar
was, and they went to it, but all the ground had been located before they
arrived. They then rained at Nelson creek and on the south fork of Feather river
until the winter of 1851, when he went back to Illinois for a visit, and upon
his return mined on Jamison creek and on the south fork. Again, in 1853, he went
east, and on the first of January, 1854, was married to Miss Laura Price,
daughter of William and Rebecca Price, now of Taylorville. In the spring of 1854
he settled in south-western Missouri; but in 1856 he sold out and came back to
Plumas county, settling in Indian valley, where he has been engaged since in
farming and mining. His first wife died January 24, 1870. He was married a
second time, to Maria S. Henderson of Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania who died February
1, 1878. The children by his first wife were Florence (deceased), Juan, Annette,
Jacob B., Mary, Susan (deceased), Robert E. Lee, Margaret, and Philip
(deceased). By his second wife he had one daughter, Susie H. Laufman.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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