Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....McGill, Robert L. 1829 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

ROBERT L. McGILL was born in Scotland in 1818. At the age of eleven he ran away
from home, went to sea, and coursed the raging main for three years, when he
left his ship at Quebec, and sailed on the great lakes until 1849, when he came
by water to San Francisco, arriving on the thirty-first of December. He had not
been ten minutes ashore when he got the job of carrying a trunk from the wharf
to Wilson's Exchange, for which he was paid ten dollars. Two months after, he
went to the mines and visited many camps, reaching Rich bar on the Feather river
in October, 1850, where he mined for some time. Later, he purchased and
conducted a saw-mill at this place. In 1853 he did the first hydraulic mining in
the county in French ravine. He followed the Fraser river excitement in 1858,
and upon his return, a year and a half after, he mined at Rich bar, 12-mile bar,
and in Round valley, where he built the Lone Star quartz-mill, which ruined him
financially. In 1868 he went into the liquor business, and has followed, it
since. He is a member of Lassen Commandery No. 12.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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