Plumas-Butte-Shasta County CA Archives Biographies.....McCorkle, Joseph W. 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   JUDGE JOSEPH W. McCORKLE.—This gentleman held the first district court in
Plumas county. He came to California from Ohio in 1849, and in 1850 was elected
the first district attorney for Butte and Shasta counties. In 1851 he served in
the legislature, and that fall went to Washington to represent his district in
the lower house of congress. Upon his return in 1853, the governor appointed him
judge of the ninth judicial district, to fill the vacancy caused by the decease
of George Adams Smith. He was occupying this office when Plumas county was
created and attached to his district. In 1863 Judge McCorkle moved to Virginia
City, and in 1868 to San Francisco. He is now practicing his profession in
Washington, D. C, chiefly engaged in prosecuting claims before the Mexican
claims commission.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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