Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....West, T. F. 1820 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

T. F. WEST.—Mr. West was born in Rensselaer county, New York, January 20, 1820.
When he was fourteen years of age his parents moved to Verona, Oneida county.
Our subject worked on his father's farm until twenty-two. In September, 1844, he
went to Dane county, Wisconsin, and farmed for seven years, after which he
engaged in mercantile pursuits for five years. In 1864 he went to Whitewater,
Walworth county, where he ran a foundry and implement and wagon manufactory for
six years. He came to California in April, 1871, by rail, and settled in Sierra
valley, Plumas county, where he purchased a quarter-section of land, and lived
on it ten years. He now resides on another farm of his own, two miles north-east
of Loyalton, in Sierra county. Mr. West is a member of the Masonic and Odd
Fellows lodges at Whitewater, Wisconsin. He was married September 15, 1841, to
Miss Abbie S. Kenyon of Rome, New York, who was born April 23, 1819.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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