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SLEEPER, MOREAN. Is a native of Orange County, Vermont, and was born September 29, 1828. When fifteen years
of age he went to New Hampshire, where he learned the mason's trade. After a residence there of two years he went
to Wisconsin, where be followed his trade until 1850, when he went to St. Charles, Missouri. There he followed
his trade for about two years, and then, after paying a visit to Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Vermont, he came
to California via Panama. He arrived at San Francisco April 15, 1854. Here he worked at brick laying until fall,
when he went to the mines, and returned to San Francisco in the following spring, where, as before, he followed
his trade through the summer, and in the fall went to Downieville, on the Yuba River. Here he followed mining until
October 15, 1857, when he met with a serious accident, which resulted in the loss of his eye sight and of one hand.
The accident occurred as follows: Mr. Sleeper was sitting upon a large boulder, holding the tamping iron, in the
act of filling tamp dirt upon a charge of powder which had already been put into the hole. He was assisted by a
man who was using a sledge upon the iron Mr. Sleeper was holding. By some unknown means the powder became ignited,
and while the tamping was going on the blast went off, blowing Mr. Sleeper about fifteen feet, destroying his eye
sight so that he has never been able to see since, and also mangling his right hand so as to necessitate amputation
at the wrist. Immediately after the accident he went to San Francisco, where he was treated by Dr. Boland until
about the middle of December, 1857, when he came to Lake County, where he has resided with his brother, D. O. Sleeper,
about two miles above Upper Lake. Since coming to this county the subject of this sketch has accumulated land until
he now owns about eleven hundred acres.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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