Plumas-Sierra-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Lemmon, William C. 1822 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

WILLIAM C. LEMMON.—Judge Lemmon was born in Seneca county, New York, March 3,
1822. When William was eight years old his father removed to Washtenaw county,
Michigan, and settled on a farm which he had located for his son in 1825, the
patent for the land being signed by John Quincy Adams, and still in the
possession of our subject. Six years after, his father died, and the management
of the farm, together with the support of the family, devolved upon William,
which duties he discharged until the other children were grown up. He attended
school at Albion, Michigan, and from there went to Ann Arbor, where he read law
with Wilson & Hubbard, and was admitted to the supreme court of the state in
December, 1849. In the spring of 1850 he came to California, via Panama,
arriving in June and going direct to Nevada City. He soon began mining on the
islands below Goodyear's bar, and in the fall settled at Downieville, engaging
in general merchandising. In 1851 he was elected the second justice of the peace
of Downieville, and served two years. From the summer of 1852 until 1856 he
dealt in stock, spending his summers in Sierra valley, and his winters near the
buttes in the Sacramento valley. Then he made the latter place his home until
the floods of 1861-62, when he returned to Sierra valley, and has since lived
there. In 1853 he was elected a justice of Sierra township, and served two
years. He is a past master of Sierra Valley Lodge No. 184, F. & A. M.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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