Sierra County Biographies

Judge Garland Harris

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
 
was elected to the office of county judge in the fall of 1867, on the republican 
ticket. He was a Missourian before coming to the Pacific coast, and had been 
sheriff of a Missouri county. He brought with him the peculiar dialect of that 
region, which invariably tinctured his language with strange and outlandish 
figures of rhetoric. He was a very good man, but not sufficiently versed in the 
law for the position he held. In 1851 he was a constable at Downieville, under 
Justice Graham, at which time he bore the title of �Pap Harris�; and afterwards 
he became justice of the peace. He served until 1872. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 430