Plumas-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Rodgers, Charles Gregory 1837 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

CHARLES GREGORY RODGERS, son of Charles and Rebecca Rodgers, was born at
Elizabethtown, New Jersey, August 16, 1837. When he was four years old his
parents removed to Bellville, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. He attended school
at Bellville for seven months, and the remainder of his education has been
gathered in the school of life. At the age of thirteen he commenced work in a
general merchandise store in Bellville, for his board and clothes. Through his
energy and attention to business he advanced step by step, from errand-boy to
manager of the business. In the spring of 1858 he started for the west, and
traveled through Missouri and Kansas, spending that winter in Illinois. In
April, 1859, he started for California with a mule team, arriving at Inskip,
Butte county, in August. He went to work on what was called the Miners' ditch,
for three dollars per day, half cash and half water scrip. In a short time he
bought a mining claim that was considered worthless, on the line of the ditch he
had been working on. The scrip procured water for his mining claim. He went to
work on it with a man by the name of Carroll, working with a rocker. It paid
them five dollars per day each for about a month. The winter coming on, they
were compelled to quit work. They wintered at Inskip, and in the spring went to
work on their claim again, ground-sluicing, until that fall, making $8.50 per
day to the man. By this time he concluded that the claim was worked out, and
they abandoned it. He spent the winter at Wyman's ravine, and in the spring of
1861 started for Plumas county on foot, not having money enough to buy a mule.
He got to Wolf Creek in July, and began prospecting. He worked there for two
years, but with little success, and at the end of that time was in debt to a
fellow-miner ten cents for postage. From there he went to Crescent Mills,
feeding in that for Blood & Pulsifer for about six months. He worked at various
mills in that vicinity, and at mining, until October, 1876, when he was
appointed superintendent of the Green Mountain Gold Mining Company's properties.
He has always been engaged in prospecting and endeavoring to develop mines, at
times being heavily involved on that account. When he was most involved, to the
amount of $15,000, his health gave out, and he was sick for nearly a year. At
times the future looked very dark to him; but he kept his courage up, and
finally paid all his liabilities, and to-day is in easy circumstances. Through
energy and skill he has made the Green Mountain one of the best paying mines in
the state, and for himself an enviable reputation as a mine and mill manager.
August 16, 1876, he was married to Miss Libby M. Hamler of Utica, Licking
county, Ohio. They have two children: Philip James, born September 4, 1877, and
Oscar" Charles, born April 4, 1879, both at Green Mountain. He is a member of
Greenville Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Greenville Lodge, A. O. U. W.; in politics a
democrat.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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