Butte County
Biographies
JAMES C. OSGOOD
JAMES C. OSGOOD.--A native son of
locating in Oroville. A blacksmith
by trade, he established a blacksmith shop where he continued business a few
years and then engaged in mining, afterwards purchasing a ranch at
he devoted
his time to horticulture, until he died, September 12, 1906. The mother of our
subject was a Miss Dickinson, a native of
Receiving
his education in the public schools, when seventeen years of age, James C.
became deputy county recorder and auditor, under his father, during his two
terms of office, and then under his successor, T. A. Atchison, in the same
capacity, for two terms. Next he entered the employ of the Spring Valley Mining
Company at Cherokee, as resident secretary, continuing
for about three years, when he was elected Tax Collector of Butte County, in
the fall of 1890, on the Republican ticket, being reelected in 1894, and
serving from January, 1891, to January, 1899. In September, 1901, Mr. Osgood
became connected with the
The
marriage of Mr. Osgood occurred in Oroville, where he was united with Miss Ida
Fisher, who was born in
Mr. Osgood has always been a Republican, and fraternally he is a member of Argonaut Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, of which he is past president.
Transcribed by Sande Beach.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 655-656, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2008 Sande Beach.
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