Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Maddux, Theophilus 1815 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

THEOPHILUS MADDUX was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, December 5, 1815. In
1838 he left home and settled at Indianapolis, where he engaged in the
confectionery business with a partner. In the spring of 1852 he started overland
to California, arriving in Sierra valley in September. He settled on the ranch
now owned by James Miller, and lived there two years, when he abandoned the
claim without proving upon it. He remained in this section until 1874, engaged
in various pursuits, when he bought the Wood ranch of 160 acres. His wife was
the first white women in the head of the valley, and his daughter, Laura O., was
the first white child born in this section. Her birth occurred in February,
1853, in a log house which stood near the present residence of James Miller.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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