Colusa County Biographies

WILLIAM FLINN

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            This gentleman is a native of Georgetown, Indiana, and was born 
October 16, 1833.  He lived in his native place some six years, when his family 
moved to the Big Miami Reservation, where he remained till 1849.  In that year 
he crossed the plains, accompanying his father�s family.  While en route the 
cholera broke out on the Big Blue, depriving him of his mother and brother, 
leaving his father with a family of eleven children.  After many vicissitudes of 
travels, he reached the Sacramento River at Lassen in October of the same year, 
where they built a boat of oak timber and floated down the river.  This was the 
first boat ever floated by white men down the Sacramento.  He next turned up in 
the mines at Long�s Bar, where he continued with varying success till the fall 
of 1852, when he located four miles above Colusa with a band of sheep.  In the 
summer of 1853 he again started to try his luck in the mines, working there till 
1855, when he returned to Colusa.  In 1862 he went to the State of Nevada, where 
he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Washoe County, under T. A. Reed.  On 
returning to Colusa County he located a ranch in Bear Valley, and, after 
disposing of this, he bought the Webb ranch on Stony Creek.  While there he was 
elected Roadmaster and Constable.  On leaving Stony Creek he came to Williams, 
where he now resides.  He has served as Constable in this place.  He has a host 
of friends, who would make strenuous efforts to elect him Sheriff of the county 
if he would permit himself to enter the race.  William Flinn was married, in 
1868, to Miss Lizzie Marble.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 452-453