Sierra County Biographies

Alonzo Ward 

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 at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in October, 1822. When seventeen years 
old he went into a tinshop and learned the trade. In 1844 he went to Niles, 
Michigan, and during the next eight years resided at that place, at St. Joseph, 
and at Chicago. In 1852 he came to California, and worked at his trade in 
Sacramento. In the spring of 1853 he went to ranching on Cache creek in 
Sacramento county, but soon sold his ranch, came to Sierra county in July, 1853, 
and stopped at Craig�s flat, mining most of the time until 1854, when he went to 
Sebastopol. In the spring of 1855, in company with six others, he started the 
Pioneer tunnel, wherein he lost $9,400. Mr. Ward worked at his trade for C. W. 
Gilbert in Downieville from 1863 to 1873, when, with Messrs. Cole and Campbell 
he bought the business. In 1881 it was sold to J. W. Brown, the present 
proprietor. Mr. Ward was married in 1870, to Miss A. F. Flanders of Downieville. 
Two children have blessed their union. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 496-497