Plumas County Biographies

James L. C. Sherwin

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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This gentleman was the democratic candidate for the assembly in the campaign of 
1857. He defeated Sylvester A. Ballou, John K. Lovejoy, and Samuel Black. Mr. 
Sherwin was from Nelson creek, where he had followed mercantile pursuits, and 
also engaged in mining. Jim got enough of legislative life, and did not want 
more of it. When he bade adieu to the assembly hall, he publicly offered to 
wager a thousand dollars that he could beat any man living on foot, to �Nelson 
P�int.� A brother law-maker inquired: �Where in the d----l is Nelson P�int?� At 
which Jim expressed his supreme disgust at the man�s lamentable ignorance. A few 
years after he left the county, and never returned, but is still living in one 
of the southern mining counties. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 197