Plumas-El Dorado-Siskiyou County CA Archives Biographies.....McLear, George Spear 1828 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   GEORGE SPEAR McLEAR.—This gentleman was born in the town of Mount Jory,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January 28, 1828. He was the third child and
second son of Arthur and Isabel (Spear) McLear, who were both natives of the
same county. When he was seventeen years of age his father died, and he went
into a furniture manufactory, where he learned the cabinet trade. After
completing his education in this branch, he removed to Dayton, Montgomery
county, Ohio, where he followed the same business. In February, 1855, he went to
New York and sailed for San Francisco, where he arrived on the sixth of March.
From there he went to Georgetown, El Dorado county, and followed mining and
carpentering for a short time. His next move was to Weaverville and Yreka, in
northern California, on a prospecting trip. Soon he returned to Thompson's flat,
near Oroville, where he worked at carpentering until the spring of 1856, when he
removed to Jamison creek, and spent three years mining; after which he purchased
the hotel kept by Friend & Byers. It was destroyed by fire some time after, and
he engaged in merchandising for five years. He disposed of his store in 1887,
and purchased the Sulphur Springs ranch and hotel. On the seventeenth of
October, 1867, he married Mrs. Mary J. Purdom; and by this union there are four
children, George, Isabel, Maud, and Edith. Mrs. McLear's maiden name was Holmes.
She was a daughter of William and Margaret Holmes, of the north of Ireland,
where she was born on the second day of February, 1843. When about twelve years
of age she came to the United States, in company with a brother and sister, and
settled in Galena, Illinois. She came to California in 1861, and stopped in
Honey Lake valley, where, on September 16 of the same year, she was married to
T. C. Purdom, who died in 1864. They had one daughter, Frankie, who was born
June 14, 1862. Mr. McLear is a republican in politics; in 1879 he was appointed
to fill a vacancy in the board of supervisors, and in 1880 was elected to the
same office for three years. An engraving of the Sulphur Springs hotel, of which
he is proprietor, can be seen on another page of this volume.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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