Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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THOMAS H. LONG
 
Born at Young�s Hill, in Yuba County, on November 21, 1864, Thomas H. Long is 
the second of seven children born to Michael and Anne (Hayes) Long, both natives 
of Ireland and schoolmates in their native country.  Michael Long came to the 
United States in the early fifties.  In 1854 he enlisted in Company H., 2nd 
Regiment, U.S. Army, and saw honorable service in the Middle West and on the 
frontier during the Indian wars, receiving his discharge in Utah in 1859, on 
account of impaired health.  In 1859 he came to California and engaged in mining 
at Galena Hill.  He married Miss Anne Hayes, who came to America and to 
California with Miss Daly, later Mrs. John Yore of Goodyear�s Bar.  Michael Long 
served as school trustee and county road-master.  He passed away in 1882, 
survived by his widow and six children: John, Thomas H., of this review, 
Michael, Mrs. Anna Bartch, Mrs. Margaret C. Kelley, and Mary.  Mrs. Long passed 
away in 1921, aged eighty-four years.  Mrs. Maria (Long) Burton, an aunt of 
Thomas H. Long, was proprietor of the hotel at Galena Hill in the fifties.
Thomas H. Long attended the Camptonville school, and with his father engaged in 
mining in Yuba County.  In 1886 he homesteaded 160 acres of government land, as 
did also his two brothers; and they followed the livestock business successfully 
until 1920, when the stock was sold.  Mr. Long is now the owner of 640 acres of 
fine timber land in Slate Range Township; it has been roughly estimated that 
twenty-five million feet of lumber could be cut from this land.  In politics, 
Mr. Long is a Democrat.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 687