Plumas County Biographies

John A. Phipps

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

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

 
Mr. Phipps is a son of Joseph and Margaret Phipps, natives of the north of 
Ireland. John was born in the town of Mercer, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, on 
the twenty-seventh day of December, 1841. When about seventeen years of age he 
learned blacksmithing from his father, who now resides in Oakland, California. 
He followed this work in Sharon, Pennsylvania, for a while; and in February, 
1864 sailed from New York for San Francisco. After his arrival he went at once 
to Amador City, and for eleven years was connected with the quartz-mines there. 
In 1875 he removed to Plumas Eureka, and took charge of the mills of that 
company. He was married September 10, 1866, to Miss Isabel Creighton, daughter 
of Joseph Creighton of Indian Run, Pennsylvania. There are three children 
living: James Farley, born September 27, 1873; Eliza J., born June 6, 1876; and 
John A., born February 4, 1879. Mr. Phipps is a member of the Masonic lodge at 
Sierra City. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 245