Humboldt County, CA and Trinity County, CA Biographies

Pioneer days in California: (1891)
By: Carr, John, 1827-1896
Humboldt County (Calif.) - Biography; Trinity County (Calif.) - Biography
Publisher: Eureka, Cal., Times publishing company

CHAPTER XLVII. BIOGRAPHY. 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

 


WHIPPLE, S. G. � Born in Vermont ; arrived in California across 
the plains from Ohio July, 1849, and in what is now Humboldt county 
in February, 1851; established the Northern Californian at Arcata in 
1858, and conducted same two years, when it was united with the 
Humboldt Times, to the proprietorship of which he succeeded, disposing 
of the establishment in 1862. Served three terms in the State Legislature. 
Entered U. S. volunteer military service spring of 1863, and the regular 
army in 1866, retiring in 1884. Resides at Eureka; manager of the 
Humboldt Times.