Sierra County Biographies

L. H. Osgood

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 
 
was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, May 14, 1833. In 1845 his parents moved to 
Winnebago county, Illinois, where our subject remained till 1854, in the fall of 
which year he came to California, stopping a short time in San Francisco, and 
moving to Sierra county in May, 1855, where he mined for a season at Craig�s 
flat. He then went to Poker flat, and remained until 1865. Mr. Osgood was 
engaged in the dairying business form 1858 to 1861, and in butchering from 1859 
to 1864. In 1859 he was appointed under-sheriff. In 1873 he commenced reading 
law, and in 1877 was admitted to the bar, since which time he has been engaged 
in practicing law.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 493