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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

ANDERSON'S ADMINISTRATION.

   As an instance of unusual integrity and honor, and as a tribute to a pioneer
who has left an unimpeachable record behind him, we mention the following: In
the year 1853 Charles A. Anderson of Mohawk valley made a present of a ranch in
Mohawk valley to Thomas Wash, an old friend of his who hailed from his native
county in Virginia. For many years Mr. Wash lived in possession of the property,
and in 1879 died without a family. He left a will at his demise, naming Charles
Anderson as his executor, but leaving the property to other parties. Anderson
faithfully settled up the affairs of the state, using the utmost economy and the
most scrupulous honesty in the transaction of the business. On the eleventh of
November, 1881, he remitted to the heirs of Wash the sum of thirteen hundred
dollars, having received himself from the estate the paltry compensation of one
hundred and fifty dollars for his services. Mr. Anderson left Plumas county
November 12, 1881, with only twenty dollars and fifty cents in his pocket; but
he has left behind him a record that but few men, placed in similar
circumstances, can boast of—the record of an honest man, "the noblest work of
God."


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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