Plumas County Biographies

J. Charles Taylor

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, May 24, 1859. While a small boy he lived 
in Iowa three years, where his father died in 1868. Then he returned to 
Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1870 came overland, with his mother and two 
brothers, to California, arriving at Quincy May 4, 1870. In the fall they went 
to Crescent Mills, and in April, 1872, to Greenville, where our subject has 
since resided. From the time of the marriage of his elder brother, William M. 
Taylor, in 1876, Charles has been the head of the family. March 15, 1875, he 
became an operator in the Greenville telegraph office, and on the first of 
April, 1881, he was appointed manager of the office.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 311