Sacramento County Biographies

THOMAS ANDERSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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	lives fourteen miles from Sacramento and half a mile from 
Franklin; he owns two hundred and eighty-three acres of land; was born in 
England in 1829; he emigrated to the United States in 1850, and engaged in 
farming in the State of New York until 1857; in that year he moved to Iowa, and 
was engaged in farming there until 1866; he then came to California and settled 
in this county, where he is now farming. He was married in 1856 to Elizabeth 
Vile, also a native of England, by whom he has had four children a son and a 
daughter living. Mr. Anderson is now holding the office of Justice of the Peace 
of Franklin Township. Post Office, Franklin. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.