Sierra County Biographies

Benjamin Pauly

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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

 
 
is a Bavarian, and was born in 1826. His parents came to New York city when he 
was seven years old. At the age of fourteen he commenced work in a butcher�s 
shop, was there four years, when he went into business for himself, and opened a 
pleasure garden. He arrived in San Francisco in the fall of 1852, and after 
working at his trade a short time in this city, went to Amador county and 
commenced mining. He stopped there but a short time, but came to Sierra county 
in November of 1852, and followed mining in the vicinity of Downieville until 
1858, when he bought the East fork saw-mill, which he now owns and has been 
running since that time.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 494