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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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550 HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA.
Virginia. His grandfather, Thomas Bragg,
was born in that State, and emigrated to Kentucky, where John B. Bragg, the father of our
subject, was born about the year 1796. He
was married to Lucinda Crump, a native of
Ohio, and they had eleven children. The father’s
death occurred in 1863.
Samnel G. Bragg, the eighth child, was
reared on his father’s farm in Illinois, and received a limited education in the district
schuols. In 1854, when twenty-three years of
age, he crossed the plains with an ox team for
the El Dorado of the West. He came on
account of his love fur adventure, as his ancestors for generations had been frontiersmen of
Virginia, Missouri and Kentucky. After arriving in this State he mined first near Shasta
until 1854, but met with yoor success. He
then removed to Yreka, where he made a little
money, and then went to the Sacramento River,
where he engaged in farming on the Parrot
grant. He believed the property to be Government land, but after living on it for a time was
obliged to leave it. He then rambled for a
time, and finally in 1855 located at Nord,
Butte County, where he purchased a squatter’s
tight to a half section of land. He has been
a resident of this county for thirty-six years,
has bought and sold land, and is now successfully engaged in grain farming. He owns a
quarter section of land, and is also the obliging
landlord of the Nord Hotel.
Mr. Bragg was married in 1872 to Miss
Sarah J. Redfern, a native of Missouri, and
they had one son, George, who lived to be only
thirteen months old. The mother died in
1874, and in 1875 Mr. Bragg was married to
Bertha A. Roberts, a native of Missouri. She
was a widow lady, and had six children by her
former husband, three of whom are now married, and two single. Mr. and Mrs. Brage
have one son, George, who is now fourteen
years of age. Mr. Bragg’s political views are
Democratic, and he has held the office of Justice of the Peace. Ie has not connected himself with any of the societies of the county,
and is widely ard highly spoken of as an
obliging gentleman, interested in the growth
and development of the county.
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ON. MOSES WILLIAMS PERSONETTE, one of the prominent long-time
residents of Trinity County, was born in
Essex County, New Jersey, April 12, 1820, his
parents being Abraham D. and Joanna (Williams) Personette. His father, who was a tanner and currier, carried on the manufacture of
leather for many years. Our subject was reared
at his native place until he had reached the age
of thirteen years, when he went to Newark, reinrning to Essex County two years later. He
then went to work in the tan-yard for his father,
but at the age of sixteen went again to Newark,
where he learned the carpenter’s trade. In
February, 1849, he started for California on the
sailing vessel “Sarah and Louise,” (Captain
Boss), which rounded Cape Horn and arrived
at San Francisco September 17. In San Francisco Mr. Personette soon obtained work at his
trade, and was thus engaged until February,
1850, when he went to Sacramento. After a
month at carpenter work there, he engaged with
Captain Semple, who was then starting the town
of Colusa, to assist that gentleman in building
operations there. After six months at Colusa
he took an ox team, loaded with provisions, and
started for Reading’s Bar, Trinity River. He
took the supplies as far as Shasta by wagon,
and from that point packed through to his
destination. He mined at the Bar about a
month, but finding that occupation productive
of only discouraging results he started a trading
post. In November he removed to Weaverville, and after mining there about two years be
went to Mud Bar, on Trinity River. In 1854
he went East on a visit, leaving on the lst of
March and returning October 5. He then
bought a claim and water-right on Indian
Creek, and a year later, selling ont, bought an
interest in a ranch on Trinity River. He dis_