Humboldt County, CA and Trinity County, CA Biographies

Pioneer days in California: (1891)
By: Carr, John, 1827-1896
Humboldt County (Calif.) - Biography; Trinity County (Calif.) - Biography
Publisher: Eureka, Cal., Times publishing company

CHAPTER XLVII. BIOGRAPHY. 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

 


RUSS, JOSEPH � A native of Maine; came to California in 1850 via 
Cape Horn; came to Humboldt in 1852; was elected to the Legislature in 
1873 and again in 1884; elected delegate to the Republican National 
Convention at Chicago in 1884. Mr. Russ was one of Humboldt's most 
enterprising citizens, and was the largest land owner in the county at the 
time of his death, which occurred in October, 1886.