Plumas County Biographies

Hiram L. Gear

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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 is a native of Ohio, where he commenced life as a printer boy. He taught school 
for a while, after which he studied law and was admitted to practice in the 
state courts of Ohio. Mr. Gear came to this state in 1863, and settled down in 
Downieville, where he married the daughter of Judge Peter Van Clief. In the fall 
of 1865 he came to Plumas county. Two years after, he was elected district 
attorney, and served one term. He left the county in the spring of 1870, and 
returned to Ohio, where he abandoned the practice of law; and being of an 
ecclesiastical turn, was assigned a pulpit in the Baptist church, and still 
remains in the ministry. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 182