Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Thomas, Charles C. 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

CHARLES C. THOMAS.—He was a native of Maryland, and came overland to California
in 1849, as a member of the Charlestown company from Virginia, in which were the
late B. F. Washington and Joseph E. N. Lewis. They arrived in Sacramento in
September; and Thomas, with a portion of the company, engaged in mining at
Bidwell's bar. Subsequently he was at American bar, on the Middle Feather. In
the early spring of 1851 McElvaney, Thomas, & Co. erected the first store and
hotel in Onion valley. The firm also built stores at Gibsonville, and at the
forks of Poorman's and Hopkins creeks. They were among the original members of
the company that opened and worked the celebrated Eureka quartz-mine, and of the
company that constructed the first flumes to drain the river at Rich bar, east
branch of the north fork. Mr. Thomas was elected a member of the assembly in the
fall of 1852, representing the Plumas portion of Butte county, and served one
session. He retired from business in Onion valley in 1854, and left the state in
1862, going to Nevada, where he has held important positions in the mines, and
is now superintendent of the Sutro Tunnel Company.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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