Dennis Tanner’s residency in Lassen County was brief but a busy one. Upon his arrival in Susanville, he installed a skating rink in the first floor of the Masonic Hotel. The following year, he purchased the Janesville Hotel, if one could call the structure. It had been built in 1856, before Janesville existed. Tanner dismantled it, and built a two-story 22 room hotel. In 1874 he sold to McClelland and Byers for $3,500. His next venture was a general store at Milford, and then had a brief stint as a innkeeper of the Milford Hotel. In 1878, Tanner relocated to Ukiah where he operated another hotel until his passing in 1898.

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