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50 Miners-Lewis co. NY to CA, 2 to Trinity Phillips, Rice, more?

scwbcm  (View posts) Posted: 24 Mar 2009 9:51PM GMT
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Franklin B. Hough 1860 "A history of the state of Lewis county in the state of New York" page 296 indicates two mining companies The Lewis county Mining Association and the Lewis county Mining Co. sent some 50 men west for goldrush. At the Lewis co. website Lowville news two of these men Phillips and Rice and possibly a third, returned to Lewis county, married and then returned to Trinity, CA. Notice names in regard to Lewiston also, B. F. Lewis, Phillips(I think), and Allen. Other possible miners John Ives,Andrew W. Doig, Caleb Lyon, Seth Miller,Thomas Hoskins, Grace Johnson Foster and Issac Foster, Bradford, Bennett, Houghton,Grant,Doty,Fox,Otis Stanton & Norton.Appreciate any information regarding the above miners, the mining companies, or miners from Lewis county

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