Sacramento County Biographies

W. A. BIRCH

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 270.
 
	Post Office, Walsh Station; lives eight miles from Elk Grove, and 
fourteen miles from Sacramento; was born in Michigan in 1836; in 1846 he moved 
with his parents to Illinois, and lived there until 1848, when he removed to 
Iowa, and remained there until 1851; he came to California in that year, across 
the Plains; was engaged in mining in El Dorado and Tuolumne Counties for about 
eight years; he then settled in this county, and has been farming ever since; he 
owns 640 acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $6000. Mr. Birch has 
held the office of School Trustee for the last eight years. He was married in 
1860 to Miss R. J. Campbell; they have four children---one boy and three girls. 
A view of his farm is given on another page. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.