Plumas County Biographies

Walter M. Banet

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


He was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi, June 26, 1855. At the age of nine he, 
with his parents, removed to Covington, Tennessee. Here he was reared and 
educated, and when eighteen years of age commenced the study of medicine at the 
Missouri medical college, from which he graduated with credit to himself, after 
finishing two courses. He then commenced the practice of medicine in Covington, 
Tennessee, and became county physician, which place he filled two years. In  
April, 1881, he came to Nevada, and served until October as surgeon in the 
United States Indian service at Wadsworth. He then removed to Loyalton, Sierra 
valley, and has already acquired a very large and lucrative practice in Sierra, 
Clover, and Mohawk valleys.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 267-268