Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Purdy, H. H. 1828 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

H. H. PURDY was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1828. In 1831 his parents moved to
Oneida county, where our subject lived until 1846, when he went to Utica to
learn the jeweler's trade. Three years after, he opened a shop in Rome, New
York, and remained there until he came to California, in 1852, starting in
March, via the Isthmus, and arriving in San Francisco in July. In August, 1852,
he came to Downieville, and purchased an interest in the jewelry store of
Benjamin Green, which they ran for four years. In 1856 Mr. Purdy acted as deputy
county treasurer, and with Mr. Green, was engaged in constructing a ditch at
Eureka, doing their banking with Langton & Co. This house failed, and Mr. Purdy
lost heavily; sustaining losses also on the Minnesota ditch, which proved
unremunerative. In 1859 he was engaged with his father, S. Purdy, in a foundry
at Downieville. In the following year he went to Silver City, Nevada, and worked
at his trade there a year. In 1861 he went on his ranch in Long valley, and
remained there until 1869, when he returned to Downieville, and opened the store
in which he is now interested.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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