San Joaquin County
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DANZY W. SHEEN
DANZY W. SHEEN, a farmer of
Union Township, was born in South Wales, January 22, 1847, a son of James and
Anna (Watkins) Sheen, both natives of England. Our subject was raised on a
farm. At the age of twenty-one he went to Kenosha County, Wisconsin. There he
remained for five years engaged in farming. In the spring of 1874 he came to
California by rail, landing in Stockton, where he went to work for J. W.
Castle, remaining with him till 1878. In that year he bought his ranch of
eighty acres, situated on the New Hope road, about two miles west of New Hope.
He was married March 25, 1875, to Miss
Lucy Powell, a native of England, by whom he had one child--D. H. Sheen. Mr.
Sheen is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Jefferson Lodge, No.
98; is a member of Woodbridge Grange since 1885, and also a charter member of
the Pomona and County Grange organized in 1887.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 270. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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