Sierra County Biographies

H. G. Weir

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 Brooke county, Virginia, in the year 1830. He began work in a 
marble-shop at the age of fifteen, and learned the trade of marble cutter and 
engraver, which he followed until he came to California in 1850. He crossed the 
plains, and arrived at Placerville in July. Here he mined until the following 
spring, and then came to Poker flat in this county, where he dug for the 
precious metal for ten years. In 1861 he went to Morristown, and mined there 
until 1867, when he went to Downieville, and engaged in the livery business, 
which he has continued to the present time.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 497