Sierra County Biographies

A. Crignon 

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
is a native of France, and was born November 30, 1819. After leaving school he 
learned the carpenter�s trade. In 1843 he went to the Marquesas islands, where 
he remained until 1851, when he came to the Untied States, arriving in San 
Francisco in June. Shortly after, he began mining on the American river, at 
Colma. In the spring of 1852 Mr. Crignon came to Downieville, where he has 
resided continually since, being engaged in mining most of the time.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 487