Sunday, August 20, 1826 John Lincoln Richards
John Lincoln Richards was born in Wales. He emigrated to Wisconsin in 1845, where he was engaged in mining. In 1849 he heard the call of the Gold Rush and came across the plains with the Rough and Ready Company, and helped establish the town of Rough and Ready, in Nevada County, California. In 1850 he returned to Wisconsin via Panama, but came back to California after only three months. He again went to Wisconsin in 1851, and remained until 1853, purchasing goods for California. He then returned to California, and engaged in the businesses of farming and brewing. By 1874 he was in partnership in a brewery with David Binklemann in the town of Grass Valley, a partnership that lasted until 1893.
He was married in 1852 to Elizabeth Mitchell in a union that produced 8 children. John Lincoln Richards died on the 15th of October, 1896 at the age of 70.
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