Sacramento County
Biographies
MANUEL F.
SILVEISA
MANUEL F. SILVEISA was born on one of the Azores Islands in 1851. In 1870 he came to California and almost directly to Sacramento. For the first five years he worked around at different places, and then purchased the present residence, a nice little ranch of fifty-five acres, where he raises vegetables and a small quantity of hay. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Waters. She also was born on the Azores Islands in 1861. They have a happy family of five children, named Mary, Manuel, Joseph, Caroline and Rosa.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 593. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.