Sacramento County
Biographies
DENNIS
DALTON
DENNIS DALTON was born in Ireland in 1848, his parents being James and Bridget (Sullivan) Dalton. He was brought to the United States in 1850, and taken to Cheshire, Massachusetts, where his parents settled, and where he lived until the age of fourteen. From that time he was variously occupied, but mostly in farm work, until May 1, 1869, when he came to California, at the age of twenty-one. Here, as there, he chiefly followed his old occupation of farm work. In May, 1872, he was married to Mrs. Catherine F. Mahone. He owns a ranch of about 700 acres, 238 of which are bottom lands on the Cosumnes River. He is here engaged in buying and selling sheep and cattle, and he also raises corn and hay, which he feeds his stock. Mr. Dalton’s parents died a few years ago, leaving nine children, of whom only five are now living. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton are the parents of one child: Edward F., born January 5, 1874. He has made marked progress in his studies in the district school, and will soon be sent to some college or university to complete his education. Mrs. Dennis Dalton, by birth Catherine Foster Rhoads, was born in Edgar County, Illinois, in 1832, her parents being Thomas and Elizabeth (Foster) Rhoads. Her parents, with their fourteen living children and some grandchildren, came to California in 1846. Catherine F. was first married in 1847 to Jared D. Sheldon, of whom and their offspring mention is elsewhere made in this work. By her second marriage, in 1853, to John R. T. Mahone, a soldier of the Mexican war. She is the mother of two children, both living: Robert, born in 1854; and Mary Ellen, in 1855, now Mrs. Vaughan, and the mother of four living children, three girls and one boy.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 697-698. Lewis Publishing
Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.