Sierra County Biographies

O. Scheffer

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 Montreal, Canada, in 1830. At the age of sixteen he began clerking 
in a store, where he remained for four years. In 1850 he crossed the continent 
to California, and first mined in El Dorado county. In 1851 he was at Yreka, and 
from there in a short time went to Nevada county, where he mined until 1860. He 
then followed mining at Forest City until 1865, when he opened a saloon, in 
which business he has been engaged to the present. He was married in 1863, to 
Miss C. Young of Forest City, who has borne him nine children, eight of whom are 
living.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 494-495