Plumas County Biographies

G. P. Haines

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
Mr. Haines was born in Kennebec county, Maine, January 16, 1835. His father was 
engaged in farming and lumbering, and young Haines lived with him until 1855, 
when he came to California, via the Isthmus, arriving at the Golden Gate March 
4. In the fall he began mining on the Yuba river, and continued at this 
occupation for three years. In 1858 he began farming and stock-raising in Sutter 
county, which he followed until 1864, when he came to Sierra valley, and made it 
his home until 1869. He then returned to his home in Maine, and stayed there 
three years, but came back to Sierra valley, and in 1873 purchased of  Woodin & 
Brown their farm of 320 acres, on which he has since lived. He was married 
December 5, 1869, to Sabrina Williams of Benton, Maine. Mr. Haines is a member 
of Sierra Valley Lodge No. 184, F. & A. M.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 271