Tuolumne County Biographies

HON. WILLIAM G. LONG

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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This respected citizen of Tuolumne, whose portrait appears herein, was born in 
Rockland, Knox county, Maine, April 19, 1831.  At the early age of nine years, 
he left home and went to sea.  Step by step he rose from a cabin boy to the 
position of master of a vessel.  This position he was filling when he sailed to 
California, letting go the anchor in the bay of San Francisco in the Fall of 
1850. He at once came to this county, bought a three eighths interest in the 
Campo Seco Water Company, and located at Woods� Crossing.  This business he 
followed during the years �51-2, then going to mining at Campo Seco and at 
Humbug Hill. At the latter place Mr. Long operated the first hydraulic mine in 
the county, in the years 1856-7.  In 1850, he returned to his native home, and 
there married Jennie Linekin, bringing her to Sonora.  He ran for Sherriff of 
this county, but was defeated by John Bourland. During the Winter of 1872-3, he 
represented Tuolumne, Mono and Inyo counties in the lower house of the 
Legisla�ture, and in 1875-6, he was appointed Revenue Collector.  He once owned 
and opened the Golden Gate mine, and has been identified with several large 
mines and mining inter�ests in this county.  Although Mr. Long�s family reside 
at Hayward�s, California, he claims Sonora as his home, and has done so since 
his coming in 1850.  The names of his children are Willietta, Charles S., Percy, 
Robert, Jennie and Willie.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882. Pg. 375-376.