Sierra County Biographies

Judge S. J. Pettibone

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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Upon the resignation of Judge McCann, in 1854, Governor Bigler appointed S. J. 
Pettibone to fill the unexpired term. He was a miner, and lived near Forest 
City. His legal attainments were not of a high order, though he held the office 
of justice of peace at the time of his appointment, and had sat as one of the 
associate judges in the court of sessions with his predecessor. He also resigned 
in October, 1854, not considering the office suitable to his taste or 
sufficiently remunerative. He was succeeded by Judge P. C. Schaffer, who 
occupied the bench until the election of his successor, in the fall of 1855. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 429