Sierra County Biographies

George H. Abbe 
was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, March 6, 1830. In 1842 his parents moved 
to Boone county, Illinois, where he lived till the fall of 1851, when he came 
the Horn around, and landed in San Francisco in August, 1852. On the first of 
September he commenced mining on Kanaka flat. In the fall of 1853 he bought an 
interest in a mine in Birchville, Nevada county. In April, 1854, this was sold 
out. He went to Forest City, where he mined until April, 1857. He then bought an 
interest in a livery stable, which he sold in 1863; and in 1865 he moved to 
Grass valley, mining there and at Meadow lake for a year. In 1867 he went to 
Downieville, remained two years, and moved to Sierra City, where he has since 
resided, engaged in the livery business. Mr. Abbe was married in 1860 to Miss 
Kate Reily of Forest City, and to them have been born four children; all living.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 485

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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