Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES
W. CARRICK
CHARLES
W. CARRICK.--For over a half century Charles W. Carrick has been a resident
of Sacramento County,
coming with his parents when he was a babe in arms. He was born in the rural district near Iowa
City, Iowa, November 15, 1869, a son of
William and Bridget (McCann) Carrick, both natives of Ireland. William Carrick came to America
with his older brother Thomas on a small sailing vessel as early as 1850 and
conducted a small dairy near Albany,
N. Y. While residing there, William
Carrick was married to Miss Bridget McCann, who came to America
with her parents in 1845. Six children
were born to them: John Thomas,
deceased; Mary E.; Lucy; Mattie; Margaret and Charles W., the subject of this
sketch. Later, when William Carrick
removed to Iowa, he engaged in farming and stock-raising until 1870, when he
sold out and came West, locating on the Yeager ranch in Sacramento County,
where he farmed for three years; in 1873 he purchased 320 acres in the Sylvan
district of the county where he continued to farm until his death in 1899, at
the age of seventy-two years. The mother
still remained on the home ranch, and with the aid of her son she handled the
property to good advantage until her death in February, 1920, aged eighty-four.
Charles W. Carrick now owns the home
ranch in partnership with his nephew, Lester Carrick, the only son of John
Thomas Carrick, the deceased brother of our subject. In politics, Mr. Carrick is a Democrat.
Transcribed by Barbara Gaffney.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 485.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles,
CA. 1923.
© 2007 Barbara Gaffney.