Sacramento County
Biographies
CARL MUNGER
CARL MUNGER, the well-known deputy
assessor of Sutter Township,
was born in the Territory of Utah,
July 27, 1852, and was but nine weeks old when his parents removed with him to California. They
were a portion of a party of nine who came across the plains in wagons, being
three months on the road. The only special trouble they had was among the
members of the party themselves soon after starting, resulting in a
separation. Packing their mules, the most of the family walked across the Great
Desert. Calvin Munger, the father of Carl, was born at Saratoga
Springs, Saratoga County, New York,
in April 1822, and died in July, 1875, at the residence of his son Carl, four
miles from Sacramento, on the river
road. Carl’s mother is a native of Massachusetts,
and was born in 1822. When the family arrived at their destination here,
near where they now reside, they had but seventy-five cents left in the purse,
and the price of one meal was $1. They
immediately began mining, at the point called Golden Hill, and made money
rapidly. They also kept the Oak Hall House, near their present
residence. This place now comprises 135 acres, devoted principally to the
raising of hops and a small portion to hay. Calvin Munger
had three children. The two who are still living are Carl and mary.
Transcribed 9-3-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 625-626.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.