Plumas-Butte-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Young, R. W. 1833 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

R. W. YOUNG was born March 17, 1833, in Glengarry county, Canada, and was the
son of George and Nancy Young, of Scotch ancestry. In 1852 he came to
California, via Panama, arriving at San Francisco late in the fall. He was taken
with the Panama fever before landing, which for some time threatened his life;
but he recovered at Marysville, and soon went to Butte county, living at
Bidwell's bar, and five months at Oroville, then Ophir, being engaged in
Rodgers' hotel, where he entirely regained his health. He went to Gibsonville,
Sierra county, the next spring, and mined nearly a year. In the spring of 1854
he went to Poorman's creek, Plumas county, and mined until 1857, not making much
success. He then went to Taylorville with his brother, W. G. Young, and followed
carpentering until November, 1859, when he walked over the snow to Bidwell's
bar, and went by the Panama route to his home in Canada. In May, 1864, he began
mining in the Shandier gold mines, sixty miles south-east of Quebec, but worked
out his claim by November, and on the twenty-seventh of April, 1865, started
again for the Pacific coast. From San Francisco he went to Portland, Oregon, and
then up the Columbia to Walla Walla. From there he went overland on foot to the
Indian mission at Cour de Leon, where the rumors of gold discoveries had drawn
three thousand miners, who were thirsting for the gore of the man who had got
them to go there. Mr. Young and two others bought an Indian pony for thirty
dollars, tied on their baggage, and started for Montana across the mountains. He
landed at Blackfoot City on the fifth of July, with fifty cents in his pocket,
which he spent for bread. He struck a job in the mines at six dollars a day, and
a few weeks after started a meat market, in which he made money. In the fall of
1866 he closed his market, saddled his mule, and went to Walla Walla. In
December, 1867, he went to Canada, and for the next four years was engaged in
the cattle trade, during which time he visited Texas, Colorado, Kansas, and
other states. March 24, 1869, he was married to Miss Maggie McRae, daughter of
Duncan and Maggie McRae, of Canada. In June, 1871, he came with his family to
California, and settled in Indian valley, Plumas county, where he has since
lived. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Young are Annie, born January 11, 1871;
Walter Edmund, October 6, 1872; Forest, September 22, 1876. Mr. Young is a
member of Greenville Lodge No. 249, F. & A. M.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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