Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM C.
SHELDON
WILLIAM C. SHELDON was born February 26, 1848, on the well-known Sheldon ranch, being the oldest child and only son of Jared D. and Catherine F. (Rhoads) Sheldon. The father was original grantee of what was then called the Omochumney Rancho, which, being afterward divided between him and his partner, became better known as the Sheldon and Daylor ranches. William C. successively attended the Rhoads and Wilson district schools until he reached the age of fifteen. In 1863 he entered Benicia College, taking a full course of three years, and afterward a business course of one year in San Francisco. At the age of nineteen he returned to the farm, and in 1873 he received title to his individual share of the Sheldon estate, on which he still resides. It contained 630 acres, to which he has since added ninety. Of this about 230 acres are bottom land. On September 26, 1872, he was married to Miss Anna V. Cook, born in Burlington, New Jersey, of American parentage. They are the parents of six children: William Jared, born July 26, 1873; Catherine Polly, March 9, 1875; George Truman, October 18, 1877; Jessie Cornelia, October 14, 1879; Laurin Murat, August 12, 1882; and a girl baby, not yet named, born March 25, 1888.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 588. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.