Sacramento County
Biographies
JOHN MARION HARLOW
The once prominent rancher and business
man whose long familiar name is given above was born in Illinois, January 24,
1849, and died on his California farm in June, 1899, aged about fifty
years. His father long held the office of public administrator of
Sacramento county, but he and his wife have been dead
many years and their names have passed into local history to be listed with
those of pioneers. Mr. Harlow was fifteen years old when he was brought
with the remainder of father's family from their old Eastern home to
California. His education, which was begun in public schools in the
Prairie state, was finished here and he associated himself with his father in
the latter's ranching operations and remained with him until he was twenty-four
years old. Then he married Miss Susie M. Bagnall, a native of England, who survives him. Three
year's after her husband's death she moved to Sacramento, where she has a home
at No. 2301 P street. Immediately after his marriage he bought a ranch at
Perkins, which he conducted successfully as long as he lived.
When she was three months old Mrs. Harlow
was brought from her native England to the United States by her father,
Cornelius Bagnall. By means of ox-teams they
crossed the plains to Salt Lake City in 1853 and in 1860 they came to
California and settled in Sacramento. Both parents passed away in this
state. Mrs. Harlow became the mother of seven children, of whom six are
living, as follows: Mrs. Eva Maguire, of San Francisco; Mrs. Ida Casselman, of Sacramento; George M., of
Perkins; John, of Sacramento; Herbert, of Live Oak, and William, of
Idaho.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 636-639. Historic
Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.