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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.