Sierra County Biographies

Judge D. H. Cowden

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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succeeded Judge Harris, having been elected the fall previous on the republican 
ticket. Judge Cowden was a man well qualified, and made an excellent judge. In 
1867 he had been elected district attorney, but refused to take that office 
again, because during his term the salary was cut down from $2,400 to $1,200 per 
annum. He served all but two months of his judicial term, when he resigned. He 
died in Downieville in the winter of 1881.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 430