Lassen County Biographies

P. B. Bronson

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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He is a son of Marshall and Malita Bronson, and was born in Susquehanna county, 
Pennsylvania, December 16, 1839. In 1857 he came with his parents, via Panama, 
to California, settling at Rich bar, Plumas county, in May of that year. Here he 
followed his trade as carpenter until the fall of 1859, when he removed to Long 
Valley, Lassen county, settling on the Hood place. The next spring he located 
and settled on a ranch in Beckwourth pass, Plumas county. In 1863 he became 
justice of the peace, on the republican ticket, of Quartz township in that 
county, which position he occupied until Lassen county was formed, in 1864, 
which made him a resident of the latter county. He filled that office in Long 
valley township, Lassen county, up to 1876. He is a member of the Odd Fellows 
and of Lake Lodge No. 135, A. O. U. W. In politics, he is a republican. He was 
married November 18, 1880, to Miss Georgie Glascock of Milford, who was born in 
Missouri, October 11, 1860. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 506