Sierra County Biographies

T. F. West

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
Mr. West was born in Rensselaer county, New York, January 20, 1820. When he was 
fourteen years of age his parents moved to Verona, Oneida county. Our subject 
worked on his father�s farm until twenty-two. In September, 1844, he went to 
Dane county, Wisconsin, and farmed for seven years, after which he engaged in 
mercantile pursuits for five years. In 1864 he went to Whitewater, Walworth 
county, where he ran a foundry and implement and wagon manufactory for six 
years. He came to California in April, 1871, by rail and settled in Sierra 
valley, Plumas county, where he purchased a quarter-section of land, and lived 
on it ten years. He now resides on another farm of his own, two miles north-east 
of Loyalton, in Sierra county. Mr. West is a member of the Masonic and Odd 
Fellows lodges at Whitewater, Wisconsin. He was married September 15, 1841, to 
Miss Abbie S. Kenyon of Rome, New York, who was born April 23, 1819. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 269