Lassen County Biographies

William B. Long

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. Long was born in Jackson county, Alabama, June 17, 1828. Three years later, 
the family removed to Madison county, Arkansas. In the spring of 1854, he came 
overland to California, stopping in Yuba, and then in Butte county, where he 
ranged a band of cattle he had driven across the plains. In 1855 he mined on 
Feather river, and then mined and merchandised in Plumas county until the fall 
of 1856. He then lived two years in Butte county, his wife having come to 
California with her father, General Allen Wood. He then farmed in Plumas county, 
and in 1862 came to Susanville, and purchased William Weatherlow�s farm, just 
north of the town, which has since been his home. Hr. Long is a democrat in 
politics. December 23, 1852, he married Miss Mary E. Wood. They have six 
children: John T., born June 15, 1853; George B., May 25, 1857; Allen J., May 
19, 1859; Edith G., April 12, 1861; Arthur W., January 7, 1864; Margaret Ann, 
October 4, 1870.  
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 409-410