Sierra-Plumas-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Rawden, William B. 1835 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

WILLIAM B. RAWDEN.—The subject of this sketch was born in Voxhall, Surrey
county, England, December 21, 1835. He went to sea at the age of twelve, and
followed this life for two years, when he landed at Quebec, and went to
Connecticut in June, 1849. He came to California in 1855, landing at San
Francisco on the first of September. He mined in Calaveras county, and at
Alleghany and Forest City, in Sierra county, until 1863, when he came to Sierra
valley, and took charge of Wood's store in Randolph. Six months after, he bought
Weil's brewery, and ran it two years, when he gave it up and bought a
half-interest in a planing mill at Randolph, his partner being J. D. Myers. They
greatly enlarged and improved the mill, and did a fine business. In 1876 he
bought out Myers, and has since run it alone. He bought the saw-mill property of
James Davidson, two miles from Randolph, in the spring of 1880, where he has 320
acres of fine timber land. He was married November 22, 1870, to Miss M. E.
Gates, who was born in Lee county, Illinois, September 11, 1845. Their children
are Blanche, Mary Ellen, and Addle L. (deceased). Mr. Rawden is a member of
Sierra Valley Lodge No. 184, F. & A. M.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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