Lassen County Biographies Clinton De Forest, Jr. Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004 This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm This young man is a native of Honey Lake valley, Lassen county, where he was born December 22, 1863. He remained at home working on the farm, and attending school in the winter time, until he arrived at the age of fifteen. Since then he has been engaged in farming and looking after stock cattle and horses. He is energetic and intelligent, and has his life work yet before him, which he gives good promise of success. Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 404