Pioneer of Placer Is Centenarian
Sacramento Union, 13 January 1917
Special to the Union.
AUBURN (Placer Co.). Jan. 12. —-
Squire L. S. Moffit of Forest Hill, recently
celebrated his one hundredth birthday, it
became known today. He has been a resident
of Placer county since the early mining days,
doing everything from keep books to tending
ditches during the fifty odd years he has
been a Placerite. Moffit came to this
country originally with Abe Reese, former
owner of the Paragon mine, one of the best
producers of the early days. Reese could neither
read or write, Moffit attending to all his
correspondence.
Although he no longer works, he is as hale and
hearty as the average man of half his age.