Sacramento County Biographies

J. A. BURKE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 276.

	farmer and dairyman; lives near the Freeport road, three and 
one-half miles from Sacramento, his Post Office; owns three hundred and twenty 
acres of land, valued at about $20,000; born in Ireland in 1824, and emigrated 
to America in 1834; lived in Boston and Andover, Massachusetts, where he engaged 
in farming until 1849; then came to this State, via Cape Horn; arrived in San 
Francisco March 1, 1850; followed mining at Mormon Island for about two years; 
then came to Sacramento. In 1854, moved to the place where he now resides; he is 
engaged in farming and the dairy business; for the last twenty years has been 
making butter. Married Miss Sarah Chandler in 1848; she is a native of Roxbury, 
Massachusetts; they have one son, having lost one daughter. A view of his place 
is given on another page. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.