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Brief History of Butte County [Wiki]Butte County is named for the Sutter Buttes in neighboring Sutter County;
butte means "small knoll" or "small hill" in French.[6] Butte County was incorporated as one of California's 19 original counties on February 18, 1850. The county went across the present limits of the Tehama, Plumas, Colusa, and Sutter counties.[7]
The first sheriff was Joseph Q. Wilbur.[8] Between November 8-25, 2018, a major wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed most of the town of Paradise, the adjacent community of Concow, and many square miles of rural, hilly country east of Chico. More than eighty people were killed, fifty thousand were displaced, over 150,000 acres were burned, and nearly twenty thousand buildings were destroyed.[9][10] The Camp Fire was California's most destructive and deadliest fire.[11]
Another Brief History of Butte County Butte County
Neighbors:
Plumas
~ Sierra ~ Yuba
~ Sutter
Colusa
~
Glenn
~ Tehama
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Books ~ Biographies
"Appleton's
Cyclopaedia of American Biography "
by Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914;
Fiske, John, 1842-1901 Publication date 1900
Appleton Review ~
Archive.org
[All Volumes]
"The History of Butte County California- Volume II"
by Harry L Wells & W L Chambers - 547 Clay Street, San Francisco: 1882:
Biographical Index ~ Transcribed Bios
"History of Butte County, California with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County
Who have been Identified with its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present" [Google Books]
By George C. Mansfield
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA - 1918
The Biographical Indexes are listed below:
A > F, F > S, S > Z
Miscellaneous Historical Records, Books & Pioneers
1881 Butte County & City Directory
1884-1885
County & City Directory
Biography: J W Bowers
Deaths from Historical Newspapers
1857 Tax Records
~ Pioneers who came to California before 1869.
[List includes those who arrived in 1869]
Butte County Land Grants ~ Butte County Photographers
The Family of Kathryn Stewart, 1919-2013
"Goin' West: 1830 - 1880"
Compilers: Richard Nelson & Alice, Vols 1 - 4
Richard Nelson & Diana Whitworth, Vols 5 & 6
This is a series of booklets detailing Families and Individuals coming to the Great Northwest,
each Volume is alphabetical.
Family Search has Vol's1 and 4 - 12: Please use this Link
FS does not have Vols 2 and 3: Use these links for Vol 2 and Vol 3
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Historical Maps
David Rumsey ~ Historic Map & Atlas Collection
Perry-Castaneda ~ Map Collection ~ Earthquake Fault Maps [CA}
American Georgaphical Society Library Digital Map Collection
Humboldt State University Map Collection
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for California~ Railroad Maps, CA
And, of course, Google Earth
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Volunteers
~ Queries ~
Lookups
I found no list of Volunteers for Butte County. If you have access to local information and are willing to be a resource,
Please contact Martha
Queries: Cyndi's List has a selection of Lists for posting Queries
Lookup: Resource I have access to the following Subscription
Databases [Library Editions] ~ HeritageHub ~ My Heritage
Contact: Martha
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<<<What's New: Books >>>
All of the Books
listed below can be found using this link.
"History of The Bench and Bar in California"
By Oscat T Shuck, of the San
Francisco Bar
San Francisco, Cal
The Occident Printing House, 429
Montgomery St, San Francisco, 1887
[Note: TOC is the 'Index']
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"History of The Bench and Bar in California"
By Oscat T Shuck, of the San
Francisco Bar
San Francisco, Cal
The Occident Printing House, 429
Montgomery St, San Francisco, 1889
[Note: There are two Indexes and a TOC]
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"History of the Bench and Bar of California"
Printing by
Commercial Printing House, Los Angeles
Linotype composition by Miller &
Wagner, Los Angeles
Engravings by Los Angeles Engraving Co., Los Angeles
Binding by Glass & Long, Los Angeles
Author: Oscar T Shuck, 1901
[Note:
There is an Index and split out Chapters of these Individuals:
Broderick,
Denver-Gilbert ~ Fair ~ Hawes ~ 'Sharon Cases']
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"History
of the Bench and Bar of California"
Edited By: J. C. Bates
Bench and Bar
Publishing Co.,
San Francisco, 1912
[Note: There is no Index, Sections
are Alpha, There are Obituaries]
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"Bench and Bar of California:
1937-38"
By: C W Taylor, Jr, Publisher
625 W Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
No Obvious Date of Publishing
[Note: There is an Index]
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Mercantile GuideTo Cities and Suburbs
Of The
United States of
America
California and Northwest Edition: 1893
Volume 3 [LDS Film 1000134]
Issued Annually
Copyrighted and Compiled By A Marks
Copyrighted at
Washington D C, April 14th, 1890
San Francisco, Cal:
Published by the
Mercantile Guide Co
403 Sansome Street
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Here is a nice selection of "Who's
Who" Books,
These all have interesting bits of information about a lot of
Folks
All of
the titles listed below can be found using this link.
"Who's Who In
California
A Biographical Directory: 1928-29"
Being A History Of
California
As Illustrated In The Lives Of The Builders And Defenders
Of
The State, And Of The Men And Women Who
Are Doing The Work And Molding The
Thought Of The Present Time.
Edited By
Justice B. Detwiler
And A
Staff Of Selected Writers.
Sketches Arranged To Conform Generally To A
Dignified Uniform Style Suitable For Reference Use.
Who's Who Publishing
Company [1929 Copyright]
315 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
[Note: There
is an Index]
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"Who's Who In California"
A Biographical Reference
Work
Of Notable Living Men And Women Of California
Vol. I: Two Years:
1942-1943
Edited By
Russell Holmes Fletcher
Who's Who
Publications Company
Los Angeles — California
No Obvious date of
Publication
[Note: There are Indexes]
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"Moore's Who Is Who In California"
John M. Moore —
Publisher And Editor
P. O. Box 2745, Terminal Annex,
Los Angeles 54,
Calif.
Copyright 1958, By John M. Moore
Los Angeles, Calif., All
Rights Reserved
[Note: There is no Index, Sections are Alpha]
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Who's Who In California: 1961
Seventeen Hundred
Illustrated Biographies Of Leading
California Men And Women Of Achievement
Alice Catt Armstrong / Editor And Publisher
Gary Armstrong / Assistant to
the Editor
Deluxe Third Edition
Copyright. 1960 By Alice Catt
Armstrong
[Note: There is an Index]
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"Capitol's State Who's Who
Combined with
Who's Who for
the Western States: July, 1953 Issue"
Compiled and Published By Capitol
Publishing Co.
Editorial offices and Plant:
629 S W 16th Avenue
Portland, Oregon: Copyright 1953
[Note: There are 3 Indexes, CA & OR
Geographical, Alpha Index]
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"Who's Who in California"
Seventeenth Edition: 1988
Sarah Vitale, Editor
Published by the Who's Who
Historical Society
Copyright © 1987 by the Who's Who Historical Society.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be produced or transmitted in any
form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without prior
written permission from the publisher.
Library 01 Congress catalog Card
Number 56-1715
International Standard Book Number 0-9603166-6-3
International Standard Serial Number 0511-8948
Note: There is no Index,
Sections are Alpha]
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Mercantile GuideTo Cities and Suburbs
Of The
United States of
America
California and Northwest Edition: 1893
Volume 3 [LDS Film 1000134]
Issued Annually
Copyrighted and Compiled By A Marks
Copyrighted at
Washington D C, April 14th, 1890
San Francisco, Cal:
Published by the
Mercantile Guide Co
403 Sansome Street
This is a really interesting Booklet.
It
contains not only the Names of People, but their Business Name, Occupation and
local Address.
Here are Page Images for Butte County:
Biggs
~ Chico,
P 1,
P2
~
Gridley, P1 & 2 ~ Oroville,
P 1,
P 2
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"Heroes
of California"
The story of the founders of the golden state as narrated
by themselves or gleaned from other sources
By George Wharton James
Author
of "Through Ramona's Country," "The Old Missions
of california," "The Wonders
of the Colorado Desert," "In and Around the Grand Canyon," etc.
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company: 1910
[Note: There is an Index, TOC, and List of
Illustrations]
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