Sacramento County
Biographies
JOE SILVA
JOE SILVA, one of the well-known ranching men of Sutter Township, was born in 1822 in the Western Islands, and in 1855 emigrated to California, and was first engaged in mining gold on Negro Bar near Folsom, in which business he was successful. Soon afterward he bought his present place of ninety-five acres six miles from Sacramento on the river road, where he is doing well in raising vegetables. His wife, Mary, was also born on the Western Islands, but they were married after coming to Sacramento. Their children are three in number; Joe, Manuel and Mary.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 591. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.