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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 598 of public trust, stands the gentleman whose . name heads this sketch. . Mr. Warren was born in Buckfield, Maine, August 16, 1838, and is a descendant of Dr. Warren, an Englishman who settled in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in the early history of the colonies. Mr. Warren’s father, a native of Massachusetts, was reared in Maine and died in that State when our subject was four years of age. Cyrus G. was brought up in his native State, received his education at Waterville College, on the Kennebec River, and graduated in 1861. In that year he crossed the continent to California, arriving at Sacramento on the last day of August, 1861. While educating himself in Maine he had been engaged in teaching, and soon after his arrival in Sacramento was employed to teach in the town of Washington, opposite Sacramento. On the 9th of December the water flooded the school-house as high as the desks, and the school was broken up and all kinds of business suspended. Asa citizen of the great lumber State of Maina, Mr. Warren had some knowledge of lumbering, and being a stout young man he went to Big Bend, on the Feather River, above Oroville, and assisted in rolling logs down the mountain side into the river, a distance of from a quarter to three. quarters of a mile. The logs were then brought down the river to Sacramento. While thus employed, a short distance above China Falls, he, with nine other men, got into a boat to cross the river in order to start some logs that were fast on the rocks on the opposite side. in the middle of the river the boat swamped and only three besides himself escaped drowning. Mr. Warren continued in the lumber business until 1864. In that year he engaged in teaching in the eastern part of Butte County, . and from 1864 until 1867 he taught in four districts, boarding around as was the custom then. intendent of Schools in Butte County, and in 1868 he came to Chico. Here he accepted the position of Principal of Schools, filling the place four years. y 38 When . In the latter year he was elected Super. . San Mateo County, where he was also engaged in teaching. While at that place he was elected Superintendent of Schools and held the office four years. As the years passed by he gave a portion of his time to the study of law, and in 1876 he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of California. In that year he returned to Chico and commenced the practice of law, which he has since continued. For several years he held the office of Deputy District Attorney of Butte County; has been Clerk and Attorney for the city of Chico for eight years. Mr. Warren cast his first presidential vote for Mr. Lincoln and has ever since been a stanch Republican. He was married May 29, 1869, to Miss Mary Ann Watson, who was born in Wisconsin, and caine to California when she was a year and a half old. They had the great misfortune tu lose their only child. Mr. and Mrs. Warren reside in the home he built twenty-one years ago. They are people of sterling worth, and are highly regarded by all who know them. — Gettin — EORGE GRANT ALLAN, for thirtyseven years of the most energetic and influential portion of an active and busy life, has resided in Nevada City, taking a personal interest in its social and commercial advancement. He has had a share of the prosperity during the busiest mining seasons, * In the days of old, in the days of gold;” and he has not lost heart during the duller times, when the suppression of hydraulic mining seriously cur_ tailed the output of the precious metal, and caused great depression in all trades and lines of business. Here he centered his interests, and by attention to his business and an everready disposition to aid those who were making an honest effort to develop the mineral wealth In 1872 he went to Redwood City, . of the county, he secured an entensive trade for his foundry, described further on, and made a host of friends and acquaintances, until to-day