Lassen County Biographies

R. Chamberlin

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 Vermont, September 4, 1839. He arrived in San Francisco in 
February, 1856, from across the Isthmus. For five years he mined in Plumas, 
Placer, and Siskiyou counties, and for the next eighteen engaged in teaming from 
Sacramento and Washoe to Virginia City, and in the lumber regions about Washoe 
and Truckee. In 1878 he bought his ranch of 160 acres, fifteen miles south of 
Milford in Long valley, which is now known as Chamberlin Station. Politically, 
he is a republican. October 14, 1874, he married Miss Fannie Robinson, born in 
Manchester, England, March 10, 1857. Their children are George R., born May 29, 
1875; Josephine, December 13, 1876; Fred H., September 29, 1877; Dora B., June 
9, 1881. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 403