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The Saga of Henry Plummer Book 1 by Sven Skaar (PH 3-1) (1959) (97 pages)

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Findley Gained
New Heights but
Luck Didn‘t Last
‘What to do with the claim he .
did not know as yet.-But a solu-;
lion would come to him, as all;
things seemed to have done !:
since he came to California.
While in Grass Valley, Thomas
‘Some day, when men arrived .
here who knew how to sink down
Findley became interested in
. ehureh work. When the Emmanuel Cpiscopal church was built
{int such veins, Grass Valley
would make the camp by Cald-;
he contributed to its fund: And
well's Upper Store seem poor in,
.
comparison. —
(To be continued)
again, at the reorganization alter’
it had fallen on poor days in the
60s, he came to its aid and
served first as senior warden and,
later as its treasurer.
.
Notes! The tourist’ may today.
see the historical ‘marker erected.
year McKnight's: original discov-. i‘
ory ot Gold Hill:
.
More than ten’ years lapsed be{
Married in East
fore Findley cowd form a com-,
yany and successfully mine the .
Idaho Ledge ‘of which he was the
first locator. Through the years}
it has yielded many millions of .
\dollars; by 1867 more than 20 .
\
millions.
Sh
\
!
In ‘59, on a trip to the Atlantic
states in search of capital for
the development of promising
Nevada county quartz mines, he
met cultured, vivacious, 1é-yearold Charlotte Young. After a
short but overwhelming court
ship, he brought her from New
York as his wife. During — his
term
as California's
treasurer,
they. lived in Sacramento.
We was. only, 28 at ‘the time
of his marriage -good looking,
rich and one of the leading politiciansof the. young, fabulous
West. With that and love to boot,
Charlotte Young considered herself a lucky girl indeed.
Copy af Early Check from Findley Bank
. wedte
G Pass Yalloy.
~ BANK OF THOM.
“Bad co
FINDLEY & CO.
or
Bearer, .
Dollars,
(THE CHECK REPRODUCED above was drawn on the firs{
‘bankin Nevada County, organized by Thomas Findley qt
ithe height of his prosperity in the Gold Country.