Sierra-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Strange, H. 1829 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

H. STRANGE, the present county clerk of Sierra county, was born in Suffolk,
England, September 28, 1829. He emigrated to the United States in 1850, and,
after spending a year in New York in the employ of the Pacific Steamship
Company, came to California, arriving at San Francisco in February, 1852. In
March he went to Calaveras county, and mined at Rich gulch nearly a year, when
he went to San Francisco, with the intention of going to Australia. While
waiting for the steamer the Russett house was burned, where the Cosmopolitan
since stood; he was present, and, in saving some of the inmates, was so badly
burned that he was disabled for a year. In March, 1854, he came to Sierra
county, and went to mining at Downieville. He mined for six months, in 1855, on
the McCloud river, and got back to Downieville in July, 1856, without money. In
1861 he was appointed deputy clerk, which post he held till 1868, when he was
elected clerk, and has served the county in this capacity continually since,
being an efficient officer and an exceedingly popular man. He was married at
Downieville, in 1863, to Miss N. A. Hill of this place, by whom he has had one
son and a daughter.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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