Plumas County Biographies

Alanson A. Hallsted

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
Son of Joseph and Betsy Hallsted. This gentleman was born in Ohio, March 8, 
1836. In 1855 he journeyed to California, via the Isthmus. He mined at 12-mile 
bar, Rich gulch, and Kingsbury�s ferry until the spring of 1875, when he moved 
to Meadow valley and erected the residence and saloon he now owns. He was 
married February 14, 1865, to Miss Mary Damm, by whom he has had five children; 
Henry E., born January 14, 1866; Fannie, August 7, 1869; May Elizabeth, November 
9, 1872; Louisa J., May 3, 1874; Asa D., March 13, 1877. He is a member of the 
United Workmen lodge at Quincy.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 253