Plumas County Biographies

Isaac S. Church

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
Mr. Church was born October 25, 1829, at Ferrisburg, Vermont. He came to 
California, via Panama, in the spring of 1850. He mined a short time at Horse 
Shoe Bend on the Merced river, and then went to Nelson Point on Nelson creek. He 
finally went to Downieville, and in 1851 was fluming the river. In the fall he 
began packing from Marysville, which he followed for ten years. He went east in 
1859, returned in 1860, and located in Sierra valley; and has the oldest patent 
for land in the valley. He was married in Vermont, February 16, 1860 to Sarah 
Ellen Geer, daughter of Seth and Mary Geer, and by this union they have seven 
children; viz, Francis S., Charles Pease, Mary Piert, Charlotte Abbie, Albert 
B., Roxy E. J., and Harriett. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 274