Sacramento County Biographies

WILLIAM E. BRYAN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Routier; lives thirteen miles east of 
Sacramento, and two miles from Routier; was born in Kentucky, in 1821, and lived 
there until 1853; he came to California in that year, across the plains, and 
followed teaming, in El Dorado County, until 1860; he then came to this county, 
and continued the business of teaming until 1867; since then, he has been 
engaged in farming and stock-raising; owns eight hundred and ninety-one acres, 
worth, with improvements, about ten thousand dollars. He has made two trips back 
to Kentucky, in 1867 and 1878. Mr. Bryan was married, in 1845, to Miss M. G. 
Herndon, also a native of Kentucky, who has borne him three sons and two 
daughters; one daughter deceased. He was elected to the Legislature, from this 
county, in 1873, serving one term. A view of Mr. Bryan's place is given on 
another page. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.