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BAILEY,
J. J., lives twenty-five miles from Sacramento, and five from Cosumnes, his
Post Office; was born in Ohio in 1828, and lived there until 1840; in that year
he removed to Wisconsin, and remained there until 1850. He then came to
California, and settled in Nevada County; he moved to this county in 1855; owns
six hundred and forty acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $8,000.
Mr. Bailey was married in 1879 to Mrs. L. D. Benton, a native of Missouri; she
has two children, son and daughter, by a former husband.
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BAILEY,
W. H., was born in Wisconsin in 1847, and lived there until 1852; he came to
California in that year, and settled in this county, where he is now engaged in
farming. Mr. Bailey's Post Office is Cosumnes.
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BELCHER,
J. C., lives seventeen miles from Sacramento and ten miles from Elk Grove; his
Post Office is Cosumnes. He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1820. After
leaving school he was in a hardware store two years, and in 1841 went to Canada
and taught music. In 1845 he went to Illinois and spent ten years in that State
teaching music, and then went to Missouri. Here he farmed until 1861, when he
came to California and engaged n the same business, making fruit a specialty.
For fifteen successive years he sold his fruit in Virginia City, Nevada. In
1861 he bought his homestead of four hundred acres on the Cosumnes River, three
miles below Cosumnes. It then had no improvements except fourteen acres of
fruit trees, which he increased to thirty acres. In 1876 he purchased twelve
hundred acres of the Daylor ranch, making his farm sixteen hundred acres,
valued at $40,000. The Cosumnes Post Office is located on this farm. Mr.
Belcher died at his residence, February 7, 1878. A view of this place is given
on another page.
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CAMPBELL,
J.; Post Office, Walsh Station; lives eight miles from Elk Grove and eleven
miles from Sacramento; was born in Bradford County, New York, in 1824, and
lived there until 1860; he came to California in that year across the plains
with an ox team and settled in this county, where he has since resided; owns
four hundred and twenty-five acres of land, worth, with improvements, about
$7,000. Mr. Campbell was married in 1849 to Miss Polly Tice, a native of New
York State; they have three children two boys and a girl.
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CONNER,
GEORGE D., lives twenty-four miles from Sacramento and four miles south of
Cosumnes---his Post Office; was born in Kentucky in 1827, and lived there until
1845, when he moved to Missouri, and was engaged in clerking in a dry goods
store until 1849. He came to California in that year, across the plains, but
returned to Missouri in 1851; he drove cattle across the plains in 1852 to this
State; was in the big fire in Sacramento in that year, and saved the lives of
two persons. In 1853, he returned East again, to Kentucky, and engaged with his
father-in-law in iron-works. He there suffered heavy loss by fire; returned to
this State for the third time in 1859, and settled in this county. Mr. C. may
truly say he has passed through fire and flood, as it was here that he
experienced the discomforts of the latter. He owns 3000 acres of land, worth
about $25,000. Was married in 1853 to Sarah J. Welsh, a native of Tennessee,
who has borne him eight children, all of whom are living---five sons and three
daughters.
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CARTWRIGHT,
P. S.; Post Office, Cosumnes; lives twenty miles from Sacramento; was born in
New York in 1839, and lived there until 1861, engaged in farming; he came to
California in that year, and continued in the business of farming. He was
married in 1877 to Miss M. Eldred, also a native of New York.
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DENHAM,
ROBERT; Post Office, Walsh Station; lives fifteen miles southeast of
Sacramento; was born in Pebsbury, Somersetshire, England, in 1844; emigrated to
the United States in 1857, and lived in Illinois until 1863; he came to
California in that year, and settled in this county; was engaged in teaming
until 1867; he then returned to Illinois, and was in the business of
stock-raising until 1875. Mr. Denham was married in 1867 to Miss M. J. Addison,
who was born in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1846; she emigrated to
the New England States with her parents when only six years of age. They have
four children one son and three daughters. He owns three hundred and twenty
acres, worth about $4000.
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DIXON,
WILLIAM H.; Post Office, Cosumnes; lives twenty miles from Sacramento; was born
in Durham County, England, in 1833; he removed to Canada West in 1855, and
worked in locomotive shops until 1858; he came to California November
eighteenth of that year, and direct to this county; he returned to England in
1866, but came back to this State in 1867, and bought the ranch he now owns in
1868. Mr. Dixon worked at blacksmithing from 1858 to 1868; since then he has
been engaged in farming and stock-raising: he owns three thousand two hundred
acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $60,000. He has held the office
of School Trustee Clerk. Was married in 1877 to Miss Clara J. Hill, a native of
Ohio.
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FAHRENBAKER,
ANDREW; Post Office, Walsh Station; lives fourteen miles from Sacramento, on
the Jackson road ; was born in Germany in 1822, and lived there until 1851,
engaged in carpet weaving: was in the Prussian war of 1848; emigrated to the
United States in 1851, and lived three months in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania ;
built a Catholic church in that city; while in course of construction he fell
from it and broke his shoulder. From Pittsburg he went to Cincinnati and
remained there two years, then to Dayton, Ohio, and then to California in 1856.
Came to Sacramento and worked six months; took sick, and his wife did washing.
Then moved to the country, paying $900 annual rent for dairy ranch, milking
fifty cows. Took up a tract of three hundred and twenty acres of land on
Stockton road, and lived on it till 1860, when he moved to his present home,
and has followed farming since. Married Theresa Arnew in 1853. They have three
boys living, one dead, and two girls living.
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FRALEY,
JAMES M.; Post Office, Walsh Station; lives at the “Twelve Mile House,” twelve
miles from Sacramento; was born in Maryland in 1827, and lived there until
1852; in that year he removed to Illinois, and remained until 1853; he then
came to California across the plains, and to this county; he followed teaming
for about nine years; since then he has been engaged in farming. He rents three
hundred and twenty acres of land from Louis Railer.
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FRY,
M. A.; Post Office, Walsh Station; lives thirteen miles from Sacramento, on the
Jackson road; was born in Pennsylvania in 1830; removed with his parents in
1837 to Virginia, and remained there till 1843, when he went to Iowa, but
returned to Virginia the next year, and lived there until 1846; he then
returned to Iowa, and resided there until 1859; he came to California in that
year, and settled in Placer County; while there he was engaged in mining,
teaming, hotel keeping, and the mill business; he came to this county in 1868,
and has since been farming; owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth
about $2500. Mr. Fry was elected Justice of the Peace in 1875, and served two
years. He was married in 1852 to Miss H. Barnum, a native of New York; they
have five children living, three sons and two daughters.
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GRIMSHAW,
WM. R., was born in 1826, in a house opposite the present Academy of Music, New
York City. He has made two trips and return to England; first in 1829,
returning 1831; second, 1832, returned 1837. In 1837 he went to Mobile,
Alabama, where he remained till 1841; thence to New York, to Charleston, S. C.,
to “Interior,” to New York City again, to Burlington, Vt., and, for the third
time, to New York City. In 1847-48 he went before the mast, on the ship “Isaac
Walton,” bound for California. Arrived in Monterey Bay, he shipped on the
“Anita,” a naval tender. He left the “Anita” in October, 1848, to keep books
for S. Brannan & Co. at Sutter's Fort, at a salary of $400 per month. In
November, 1849, he formed partnership with Wm. Daylor, and kept a store at
Daylor's Ranch, on Cosumnes River, where he has since resided. Mr. Grimshaw
married Mrs. Sarah P. Daylor. They have seven children, viz. : Wm. R., Jr.,
Thos. Winturn, Emma (wife of W. D. Lawton, of San Francisco), George, Jno.
Francis, Frederick, Walter. The sons all reside on the old Daylor Ranch.
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GRIMSHAW,
MRS. S. P., lives eighteen miles from Sacramento, and three-quarters of a mile
from Cosumnes, her Post Office; was born in Edgar County, Illinois, in 1830; in
1837 she removed to Missouri, and lived there until 1846; she came to
California in that year and to this county. She was married March 4, 1847, to
William Daylor, a native of London, England. Mr. Daylor took up, in company
with Mr. Sheldon, the tract of land known as the Sheldon Grant; it consisted of
five leagues. Her husband died in October, 1850; she was married again in 1851
to W. R. Grimshaw. She was in Sacramento City during the flood of 1852. Mrs.
Grimshaw owns one hundred and ten acres, worth, with improvements, about
$15,000.
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HOWELL,
S. A., was born in Geauga County, Ohio, in 1828, where he resided until 1852,
having traveled in the Southern States during the time. In 1852 he sailed from
New York, by steamer, to Chagress; from thence he worked his way to Panama by
small boat and on foot. At Panama he took passage on a Dutch sailing ship for
San Francisco, arriving in sixty-nine days. From this point our friend went to
Placerville, and engaged in mining until 1857, when for four years he followed
contracting and carpentering. In 1861 he moved to Sacramento River, and
continued contracting until 1866; at this time Mr. Howell moved to his present
location, known as “Daylor's Ranch,” on the Cosumnes River, one of the first
settled places in Sacramento County, where he now keeps a store and the Post
Office.
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KURTZ,
FREDRICK, lives sixteen miles from Sacramento and ten miles from Brighton, his
Post Office; was born in Germany in 1838; emigrated to the United States with
his parents in 1839, and lived in Ohio until 1854. He started across the Plains
in that year, but did not arrive in California until 1856, and settled in this
county; he engaged in teaming until 1868, when he returned to Ohio. He came
back to California a year later, and again engaged in teaming. He went to
Nevada in 1872, and continued the business of teaming until 1875, with four
wagons and eighteen mules, over snow and all kinds of roads. He owns five
hundred and thirty-one acres, worth about $4,000; he is now farming. He was
married in 1877, to Miss Viola Shuck, a native of Oregon, who has borne him one
daughter, Pearly, born November 2, 1878.
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LEPETIT,
JOHN G., lives seventeen miles east of Sacramento, and twelve miles from
Brighton, his Post Office; was born in Germany in 1846, and lived there until
1869; worked at shoemaking from the time he was fourteen years of age until he
was twenty years old; was corporal in the army for three years; took second
premium for shooting. He emigrated to the United States and to California in
1869, and is now farming; owns two hundred and seventeen acres of land, worth
with improvements, about $2,500. He was married in 1875 to Katie Bauman, a
native of Illinois; they have two children living, a son and a daughter.
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LINDSAY,
WILLIAM K., lives eighteen miles from Sacramento, and nine miles from Elk
Grove, his Post Office; was born in Kentucky in 1809, and lived there until
1831; he removed to Illinois in that year, and remained there until 1850,
engaged in the stock business; he then came to California, and settled on the
place where he now lives in October, 1852; owns twenty-four hundred acres of
land, assessed value $15 per acre. Mr. Lindsay was a member of the Board of
Supervisors in 1858, and was re-elected, but he resigned. He was married in
1830 to Miss Sanders, a native of Kentucky; they have four children, two sons
and two daughters.
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LOWE,
T. P., lives eighteen miles from Sacramento, and seven miles from Elk Grove,
his Post Office; was born in Missouri, in 1845, and lived there until 1853; he
came to California in that year, and remained in Nevada County until 1854, when
he went to San Francisco, and resided there until 1857; he then removed to
Sierra County, and stopped there about a year; settled in this county in 1875;
owns six hundred and fifty acres of land. Mr. Lowe was married in 1872 to Miss
Emma Jenkins, a native of Ohio; they have two children a son and a daughter.
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MIDDLEBURY,
WILLIAM, lives eighteen miles from Sacramento, and three miles from Cosumnes,
his Post Office; was born in Germany, in 1840, and lived there until 1858;
emigrated to the United States in that year, and was farming in Missouri until
1861; he then came to California and settled in this county; he owns one
hundred and twenty acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $4000. Mr.
Middlebury was married in 1871 to Miss Sarah Dollarhide, a native of Virginia.
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MITCHELL,
J. B., lives twenty-five miles from Sacramento, and six miles from Cosumnes,
his Post Office; was born in England, in 1825; he emigrated to the United
States in 1836, and settled in Illinois; he enlisted from that State in 1847,
in the Sixteenth Volunteer Regiment, and served until the close of the Mexican
war; then engaged in lead mining in Illinois until 1854; he then came to
California, and lived in Nevada County until 1867, when he moved to this
county; owns two hundred and eighty acres of laud, worth about $5000. He was
married in 1851 to Miss Jane Kistle, a native of England; they have three
children a son and two daughters.
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MURRAY,
B. B., was born in Ireland, in 1830, and lived there until 1846; he emigrated
to the United States in that year, and lived in St. Louis, Missouri, until
1850; he then came to this State, and settled in this county, in 1852. He was
married, in 1864, to Miss Annie Murray, also a native of Ireland, who bore him
nine children, seven of whom are living. Mr. Murray died April 4, 1877. His
widow, Annie Murray, with her family, lives eighteen miles from Sacramento; she
owns three hundred and twenty acres of land; her Post Office address is Elk
Grove.
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MURRAY,
MICHAEL, lives seventeen miles from Sacramento, and eight miles from Elk Grove,
his Post Office; was born in Ireland, in 1828, and lived there until 1848; he
emigrated to the United States in that year, and was engaged in the pork
business in St. Louis, Missouri, until 1850; he then went to Salt Lake with
Ben. Holliday; left there October 3, of same year, and came to El Dorado
County, California; in 1851, he left that county, and settled in this county,
where he now lives; owns three hundred and twenty acres of land, worth, with
improvements, about $7,500. He was married, in 1859, to Miss Bridget Banks,
also a native of Ireland.
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PARKER,
H. A., lives fourteen miles east of Sacramento, and eight miles from Brighton,
his Post Office; was born in Ohio, in 1828, and lived there until 1852, engaged
in the manufacture of edge tools; he came to California in that year, by way of
the Isthmus; was one hundred and sixty-eight days coming from Panama to San
Francisco, and suffered a great deal on account of short rations; he followed
mining, in Tuolumne County, until 1853, when he went to Klamath, and mined
until 1859; he then returned to Ohio, and remained until 1860, when he drove
stock across the plains to this county, and has since been farming and teaming.
Mr. Parker has since made two trips to Iowa, in 1872 and 1873. He was married
in the last-mentioned year to Miss M. W. Wilcox, a native of that State; they
have one child a son. He owns five hundred and thirty-one acres, worth about
$8,000.
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PATTERSON,
JOHN, lives eighteen miles from Sacramento and nine miles from Elk Grove his
Post Office; was born in Ireland in 1839; emigrated to the United States in
1848 and lived a short time in New Orleans; subsequently he removed to Galena,
Illinois, and remained there until 1852; he came to California in that year and
resided in Sierra County until 1859, when he settled in this county and engaged
in farming; owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres of hand, worth, with
improvements, about $10,000. He was married in 1878 to Miss Anna English, a
native of Illinois; they have one child a daughter.
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PICKETT,
MICHAEL, lives twenty miles from Sacramento and three quarters of a mile from
Cosumnes his Post Office; was born in Ireland in 1828 and lived there until
1846; he emigrated to the United States in that year and remained in New York
until 1852; he then went to Massachusetts and resided there until 1863, when he
came to California; he owns four hundred and seventy-five acres of land. Mr.
Pickett was married in 1859 to Miss Margaret Barry, who was born in New York in
1839; they have five children Garrett George, born in Massachusetts, October
24, 1863; William H., February 4, 1868; Michael E., June 24, 1871; Anna L.,
December 24, 1873; Theresa May, May 6, 1878.
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PLUMMER,
A. M. ; Post Office, Walsh Station ; lives fourteen miles from Sacramento on
the old Jackson road; was born in New York in 1826 and lived there until 1844;
in that year he removed to Illinois and remained there until 1850, engaged in
farming; he then came to California across the plains and settled in this
county; followed teaming from Sacramento City to Amador County until 1853;
since then he has been farming and stock-raising; owns one thousand acres,
worth about $8000. Mr. Plummer was married in 1860 to Miss E. B. Bailey, who
was born in La Fayette County, Wisconsin, 1834; she came to this State with her
parents in 1853; they have four children living a son and three daughters.
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RENWICK,
P., lives five miles from Cosumnes his Post Office and twenty-three miles from
Sacramento. He was born in 1812 in New York, and remained there till 1834; then
moved to Illinois, where he lived till 1850, when he came to California.
Returned after two years to Illinois, and there engaged in farming till 1867,
having served two years and ten months in the One hundred and Twenty-seventh
Illinois Infantry. In 1867 he returned to California. Was married in 1839 to
Miss A. M. Hatch, a native of New York. They have had three boys two living and
two girls one of whom is now living. Property is worth about $8500.
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RICHARDS,
JOHN, lives eighteen miles from Sacramento City and seven miles from Elk Grove
his Post Office. Was born in England in 1826, and emigrated to Wisconsin in
1845, where he was engaged in mining. In 1849 came across the plains with the
Rough and Ready Company, and stopped at Rough and Ready, Nevada County, mining.
In 1850 he returned to Wisconsin, via Panama, but came back to this State after
staying there three months. He again went to Wisconsin in 1851, and remained
until 1853, purchasing goods for California. He then came to this State, and
engaged in farming. In 1869 he went East by rail with the California Pioneers.
He was married in 1852 to a Wisconsin lady, and they have three sons and five
daughters. He owns 2000 acres of land, valued at $30,000. A view of this place
appears in this work.
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SHELDON,
W. C., lives eighteen miles from Sacramento, and two miles from Cosumnes his
Post Office; was born in this county in 1848. His father, in company with Mr.
Daylor, took up the tract of land known as the Sheldon Grant. The subject of this sketch has lived on the
grant all his life; he owns six hundred and fifty acres, worth with improvements
about $12,000. He was married in 1872 to Miss Anna V. Cook, a native of New
Jersey, and who has borne him three children, all of whom are living two sons
and a daughter.
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SMITH,
WILLIAM A.; Post Office, Walsh Station; lives thirteen miles from Sacramento;
was born in Ohio in 1848, and lived there until 1851; he crossed the plains
with his parents in that year, and settled in this county, where he has lived
ever since. He owns two hundred and forty acres of land, worth with
improvements about $2000.
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TAVERNER,
THOMAS M.; Post Office, Cosumnes; lives twenty-five miles from Sacramento; was
born in England in 1833, and lived there until 1856; removed to Canada in that
year, and engaged in farming until 1858; he came to California in 1859, and has
since been farming and sheep raising; owns two thousand acres; of land, worth,
with improvements, about $16,000. Mr. Taverner was married in Sacramento City,
in 1874, to Miss Ester Ann Hirst, also a native of England, born 1843: they
have three children two sons and a daughter. A view of his ranch is given on
another page.
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TAYLOR,
CHARLES M.; Post Office, Coleville, Mono County; was born in Wisconsin in 1832,
and lived there until 1849; he came to California in that year, and engaged in
mining in El Dorado County until 1852; he then came to this county and followed
farming until 1861, when he engaged in stock-raising in Solano County until
1863; then he moved to the State of Nevada and resided there until 1868, when
he came back to this county and remained here until 1873; in that year he
removed to Mono County, where he now resides. Mr. Taylor was married in 1859 to
Miss Frances Fletcher, a native of Lockport, New York; she died in March, 1878:
he has three children a son and two daughters.
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TAYLOR,
S. W., lives twenty miles from Sacramento, and three miles from Cosumnes, his
Post Office; was born in Pennsylvania in 1815; removed to Illinois in 1821, and
lived there until 1827, when he went to Wisconsin, and made his home in that
State until 1847; he then went to Texas, and resided there until 1854. Mr.
Taylor served as a volunteer during the Black Hawk War in 1832, and also in the
Mexican War in 1848. He came to this State in 1854, and lived in Los Angeles
County until 1856; he then came to this county, but afterwards, in 1859, went
to Solano County, and then, subsequently, to Monterey County; he came back to
this county in 1878. He was married in 1840 to Miss T. Davis, a native of
Maryland; she died in 1851: he married again in 1853 to Miss Mary Knight, a
native of Georgia, who died in 1875; he was married the third time, in 1877, to
Mrs. Woods, a native of Ohio. Mr. Taylor is the father of sixteen children,
eight of whom are living four sons and four daughters.