Sierra-Tuolumne-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Luther, W. T. 1825 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

W. T. LUTHER, the present county assessor, was born in Swanzey, Rhode Island,
January 2, 1825. In 1843 he began work at pottery-making, in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, which he followed for six years. In January, 1849, he left for
California in the ship Hopewell, and arrived in San Francisco in August. Soon
after he went to Jacksonville, where he mined a short time; then he returned to
San Francisco, and, in partnership with Captain Sam. Vincent & Son, bought a
schooner and carried freight to Stockton. Freight then brought sixty dollars per
ton, and for lumber seventy-five dollars per M. In the summer of 1850 Mr. Luther
mined on Slate and Nelson creeks and Feather river. In the fall he settled at
Marysville, and ran a pack-train from that place to the mountains, until the
year 1859, when he came to Sierra county and bought an interest in the Gold
Valley quartz-mine. In 1861 he established a packing and forwarding business at
Downieville. Mr. Luther was elected county assessor in 1879. He was married in
1872 to Miss L. L. Diffenderfer of Iowa.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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