Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Stark, Lewis 1808 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

LEWIS STARK.—Squire Stark, as he is familiarly called, is a native of Tennessee,
where he was born in the year 1808. He came overland to California with his
family in 1852, and was among the first to go through Beckwourth pass, being
conducted by Jim Beckwourth over his road. He went on to American valley. On his
journey thence he camped in the ravine where Elizabethtown was subsequently
built, and some of his boys, prospecting there, discovered the first diggings of
that locality. Squire Stark concluded to remain there, and quite a village soon
sprang up. The town was named after one of the squire's daughters, W. A.
Blakesley, of Quincy. In 1853 Mr. Stark was elected a justice of the peace of
Butte county, and again in 1854, after Plumas was organized. He was re-elected
in 1856, '57, and '58, for Plumas township. In 1858 he removed to Honey Lake
valley, and was there a justice of the peace in 1860-61. He was nominated by the
democrats for county judge in 1863, and was defeated by Israel Jones. He removed
to Santa Barbara in 1867, but returned and settled in Quincy in the summer of 1881.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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