Sacramento County
Biographies
DONALD COY DALTON
DONALD COY DALTON.--A young man engaged in the work of agriculture and horticulture on his father's ranch on the Cosumnes River is Donald Coy Dalton, a native son born at Walsh Station, twelve miles from Sacramento, July 30, 1897, the son of Edward F. Dalton, who is also a native son born on the Cosumnes River. The father is a very successful farmer and orchardist owning large holdings on the Cosumnes River near Slough House, which he has improved and developed until his ranch is now in a high state of cultivation. He now makes his home in the capital city.
The eldest in a family of five children, Donald Coy Dalton was educated in the public schools in Sacramento. From the Sacramento high school he entered Heald's Business College in Sacramento, from which he graduated in 1918. He immediately took up ranching and has since assisted his father in operating the ranch, which is largely devoted to the growing of prunes and peaches. He is intensely interested in horticulture and is a close student of care of fruit trees and the growing of fruit and is carefully storing up knowledge and experience useful to a man engaged in orcharding. Mr. Dalton is interested in the preservation of California history and pioneer landmarks. He is an enthusiastic member of Sunset Parlor, N. S. G. W., and is also a member of Sacramento Lodge No. 6, B. P. O. E.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter,
History of Sacramento County, California
With Biographical Sketches, Pages 788-793.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.