Plumas-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Wagner, William 1828 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

WILLIAM WAGNER.—The owner of Buck's ranch was born in Fredericktown, Knox
county, Ohio, on the twenty-sixth of April, 1828, and was the eighth son of
George and Mary Wagner, who reared a family of twelve children. His father
served with Napoleon Bonaparte in 1808, and emigrated to America in 1810. To
secure his passage expenses on the ship, he sold his time to a Pennsylvania
Quaker, and worked on Connestoga creek until 1821, when he removed to Ohio. In
February, 1852, William left home for California, and in the fall of the same
year was at Rich bar, in Plumas county, where he mined a short time, and then
was engaged as clerk by Messrs. Clark, Wagner, & Stickney. Shortly after, he
went to Devil's Elbow, near Spanish Ranch. This place derived its name from a
remark made by Wagner, in which he referred to it as "a devil of an elbow." His
associates that winter were James and A. J. Ford, S. M. Folger, J. M. Robinson,
E. O. Parker, Lewis Keeler, and a Mr. Fales. In 1860 Mr. Wagner removed to
Buck's Ranch, and has since been engaged in merchandising, stock-raising, and
mining. He was the first justice of the peace at Buck's Ranch, and served for
eight years. He has been a supervisor of the county for six years, and has been
chairman of the republican central committee, and of the county conventions, for
many years. In addition to the Plumas property, they own the Miner's ranch in
Butte county, and Mr. Wagner has two valuable properties in Ohio, including the
homestead on which he was born. He is a member of Elicott Lodge No. 267, I. O.
O. F., at Fredericktown, Ohio, and of Kokosing Encampment at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
He is also connected with Plumas Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M., at Quincy.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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