Plumas County Biographies

H. T. Firmstone 

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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was born at Plymouth, England, in the year 1831. At the age of seventeen he came 
to the copper mines on Lake Huron, where he worked for three years. In 1852 he 
came to California, via the Isthmus, landing in San Francisco on the first of 
August. Until 1854 he mined in Nevada, Yuba, and Sierra counties. On one 
occasion, while trudging on foot with a companion from Grass valley to 
Sweetland, in Nevada county, his friend gave out, and he packed him, with two 
mining outfits, four miles to their destination. In 1854 he came to Plumas, 
holding positions in companies at Round valley, Brownsville, and in Indian 
valley. At Brownsville he was superintendent of the Pennsylvania company for two 
years. In 1880 he engaged in the liquor business at Greenville, which he at the 
present time follows. In 1867 he was married to Miss Maria Hickerson of Indian 
valley. They have had three children: Henry, born February 28, 1868; John, July 
10, 1870; Robert, September 10, 1876. He is a member of the Blue Lodge No. 132, 
F. & A. M., and of the Indian Valley Lodge No. 136, I. O. O. F. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 306