Lassen County Biographies

Phillip Myers

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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He was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1818. In 1833 he, with 
his parents went to Licking county, Ohio, where he remained until twenty-one 
years of age, when he went to Randolph county, Illinois, and worked at 
blacksmithing, which trade he learned in Ohio. In 1852 he came overland to 
California, arriving in Marysville September 3 of that year. He here worked at 
his trade until February, 1854, when he went to Oroville, where, besides working 
at his trade, he engaged in the hotel business and farming. In 1860 he went back 
to Marysville, and in 1862 to San Francisco, where he remained until 1864, when 
he came to Lassen county and started a blacksmith and wagon shop in Susanville. 
He continued here until 1871, when he bought 160 acres of land one mile south of 
Susanville, where he has since made his home. He has since added to his farm, 
until he now has 640 acres. He was married December 21, 1845, to Miss Hannah A. 
McCormick, who was born in Boone county, Kentucky, January 31, 1827. The 
children born to them are Thomas A., born June 29, 1848; Cyrus R., September 10, 
1849; Alice, December 25, 1850; Charles P., December 23, 1852; Emma, June 4, 
1854; Zebulon M., November 17, 1855; Albert, March 26, 1857; Ada F., November 
10, 1858; Frank L., December 29, 1863; Annie, November 18, 1870. Alice died 
October 12, 1852; and Emma, June 9, 1854.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 502