Sacramento
County
Biographies
JOHN
C. DOLSON
John C. Dolson, a San Joaquin Township rancher, was born In Orange County, New
York, April 7, 1823, a son of Frederick and Margaret (Moore) Dolson. His father was a native of Germany and a farmer by occupation, and in his
family were five sons and four daughters.
He died at the age of fifty-one years, and his wife at the age of sixty
years, in Orange
County, New York.
Mr. Dolson, of this sketch, was brought up on
the farm and came to California in 1850, by way of Panama, being three months on the route. He followed mining four years at Pilot Hill,
near Georgetown, but he did not make much money,
although the mines had been very rich.
In 1854 he returned to Orange County, New York, again by way of the Isthmus; and during
this year he was married to Hannah O’Connor, a native of Ireland.
In 1855 he came again to this State and resumed mining for two years on
the American River, with rather poor success. In 1857 he settled on his present ranch, a
half mile from Elk Grove, and here he has prospered as a general farmer, as he
has well deserved to do. He has eight
children, in the following order: Oscar
J., born October 1, 1855; John J., November 17, 1857; David P., January 4,
1861; Maggie M., May 4, 1863; Willie, May 22, 1865; Mary E., August 23, 1869;
Alice E., December 31, 1871; and Joseph H., October 23, 1874.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An
Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California. Page 511-512. Lewis Publishing Company.
1890.
©
2005 Karen Pratt.