Sierra-El Dorado-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Jump, Alemby 1821 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

DR. ALEMBY JUMP was born April 10, 1821, on the bank of the Ohio river, in
Belmont county, Ohio, where his parents resided on a farm. His father removed to
Richland county in the fall of that year, where the doctor was raised, attending
school during the winter months. At the age of twenty he went to a school at Nor
walk, Ohio, under the direction of Dr. Thompson, a Methodist clergyman. Here he
taught school during the winter months, and also assisted on his father's farm.
He commenced the study of medicine in May, 1846, in the office of Dr. Bushnell,
at Mansfield, Ohio, and graduated February 21, 1849, from the medical department
of the Western Reserve college at Cleveland. He then began practicing at Bryan,
Williams county, Ohio; but on the twenty-third of April, 1850, started across
the plains to California, arriving in October, and began mining at Logtown, El
Dorado county. He was one of the party who discovered the Eureka mine in Plumas
county, in the spring of 1851, and gave the name to the company. He remained at
the mine until October, 1852, and then went to Plum valley, Sierra county, where
he spent the winter. July 18, 1853, he bought the office of Dr. D. P. Durst at
St. Louis, and practiced medicine there eleven years, being burnt out three
times during this period. He removed to Downieville October 7, 1864, and took
charge of the Sierra county hospital, to which he had been appointed by the
board of supervisors. With the exception of five years, when Dr. Chase was
county physician, he has held this position ever since. He was elected coroner
in 1865, and served six years. In 1873 he was re-elected, and held the office
until March, 1880. Dr. Jump was married October 20, 1863, at St. Louis, to Miss
Mary E. McCrory of Pennsylvania. They have one son, Robert L., born September 1,
1864, now a student at Berkeley. The doctor is interested in a hydraulic mine at
American hill, and several others, having spent $30,000 in mining without
drawing a dividend. He enjoys a large practice in Downieville and the
surrounding country.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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