Sierra County Biographies

N. B. Fish

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
the present sheriff of Sierra county, was born in Waldo county, Maine, December 
28, 1830. In 1850 he went to work at ship-carpentering at Damariscotta, and 
stayed there three years. In 1854 he came to California, arrived at La Porte in 
June, and went to mining at Secret diggings. He followed mining there and in the 
northern part of the county until 1874, when he was appointed under-sheriff. . 
In 1877 he was elected sheriff, and re-elected in 1879. He is a very efficient 
officer, and a man highly honored and esteemed. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 488