Sierra-Shasta County CA Archives Biographies.....Downer, Eugenio Kincaid 1847 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

EUGENIO KINCAID DOWNER, son of A. L. Downer, was born in Newark, New York, in
1847. His father came to California in 1849, where he was joined by his wife and
children in the winter of 1852, who came by steamer via Panama. The family
settled at Shasta, Shasta county, where our subject received a common-school
education, and learned the printing trade in the office of the Shasta Courier.
December 24, 1865, be took up his permanent residence at Downieville, where he
was employed as journeyman printer on the Mountain Messenger for two years and a
half, then owned by Dewey & Vaughn. With D. L. Whitney, he purchased E. M.
Dewey's interest in the paper. A few years later J. H. Ford bought out Mr.
Whitney's share, and afterwards sold it to Mr. Downer, giving him an equal
interest with Mr. J. A. Vaughn, which business relationship has since existed.
Mr. Downer is at present interested in the Bald Mountain Extension gravel-mine,
the Oro quartz-ledge, Grand Prize claim, Wilbourn Consolidated drift diggings,
and the Golden Gate quartz-ledge.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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