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pris, 1958
Nevada County distorical Society
Volume 12, No. 1
History of Nevada County Militia Organizations
Compiled and Written by Walter B. Murphy, Chief Warrant Officer, CAL. ARNG.
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An Early-Day Unit of the Light Guard, C
on 2
ompany C, Nevada City
Standing, left to right: Tompkins, Davidson, J. Dunster, Joe Tredennick.
Seated, left to right: Jack Kilroy, (uncle of Elza Kilroy), Levi Nicholson, C. Dennis.
(Photo loaned to N. C. Historical Society for display in its Museum by Elza Kilroy).
Nevada City was first christened
“Nevada” in 1850, and was so called until
1864 when Nevada State was chartered
and usurped the name, after which the
word City was added.
When, in 1858, a group of leading business and professional men, headed by
Henry Meredith and Rufus Shoemaker,
organized a Volunteer Militia company,
they named it the NEVADA RIFLES.
The organization of the militia comany was done under the provisions of
une “Act concerning the organization of
the Militia of the State of California” and
the proper legal procedures were published in the Nevada Journal, owned and
published by Mr. N. P. Brown. First publication was on twenty-nine January 1858
and continued until the twelfth of February 1858, as attested to by Mr. Thomas
P. Hawley, Notary Public, who appeared
before County Judge T. H. Caswell,
Mr. Hawley was duly authorized by
Judge Caswell to ‘Open a book in which
he was to enter the names of all persons
so volunteering, which he did with the
following listed therein:
Henry Meredith, Captain; Phil Moore,
lst Lieutenant; George Story, 2nd Lieutenant; Jerome Moore, 3rd Lieutenant; J,
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