Plumas-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Russell, H. P. 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

H. P. RUSSELL.—The defalcating and absconding of George Sharpe, first sheriff of
Plumas county, resulted in the succession to the office of General H. P.
Russell, who was coroner, and by virtue of the law became sheriff upon a vacancy
occurring in that place. The general was hardly qualified for the
responsibilities of that position, and in the discharge of his official duties
was much ridiculed and criticised. He was formerly a New Yorker, but at the time
was a farmer in American valley. He assumed the shrievalty of Plumas county on
the first day of August, 1855. His term of office was exceedingly short, lasting
only until the winter, when his successor elect was qualified, he not being
favored with a re-election. He then retired to his farm, called the Uncle Sam
ranch, where he devoted himself to agriculture until the year 1861, when he took
the Washoe fever and removed to Carson City, Nevada. Shortly after, he received
the appointment of adjutant-general of the territory, and several years
subsequently died in Sacramento, having failed to accumulate wealth, but being
held in kindly remembrance by hundreds of friends.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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