Plumas County Biographies

Richard Jacks

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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In Howard county, Missouri, September 22, 1830, the subject of this sketch was 
born. In April, 1850, he started with a company for California, and having lost 
their cattle in the Missouri river, they hired a man to haul their provisions, 
and footed it across the continent, arriving at Placerville September 5. After 
mining a few months in various localities, he came to Poorman�s creek, in this 
county, in April, 1851, mined there a short time, and spent the summer on Canyon 
creek. For three years he mined in different places, and in July, 1854, settled 
at Quincy. During the same year he erected a saw-mill in Meadow valley. In 1863 
he prospected on Reese river, but was glad to return; and in 1864 bought the 
property he has resided on since. In 1869 he went to Kansas to settle his 
father�s estate, and while there was married to Florence Freemont Bell, January 
11, 1871, by whom he has had four sons and two daughters, as follows: Doniphan 
R., Mary E., Solon J., Elias T., Florence J., and Andrew R. Mr. Jacks is a 
member of Plumas Lodge no. 60, F. & A. M. , and Quincy Lodge No. 88, I. O. O. F. 

 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 253