Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Sherwin, James L. C. 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   JAMES L. C. SHERWIN.—This gentleman was the democratic candidate for the
assembly in the campaign of 1857. He defeated Sylvester A. Ballou; John K.
Lovejoy, and Samuel Black. Mr. Sherwin was from Nelson creek, where he had
followed mercantile pursuits, and also engaged in mining. Jim got enough of
legislative life, and did not want more of it. When he bade adieu to the
assembly hall, he publicly offered to wager a thousand dollars that he could
beat any man living, on foot, to "Nelson P'int." A brother law-maker inquired:
"Where in the d------l is Nelson P'int ?" At which Jim expressed his supreme
disgust at the man's lamentable ignorance. A few years after he left the county,
and never returned, but is still living in one of the southern mining counties.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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