Sacramento County Biographies

PETER BURNS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 276.

	farmer and stock-raiser; lives two and one-half miles from 
Sacramento, his Post Office ; owns one hundred and sixty-eight acres of land, 
valued at $8,000; born in 1827, in Ireland, where he engaged in farming; in 
1847, came to America, and settled in Brooklyn, and came to California in 1849, 
by the way of the Isthmus; followed mining on the American River, between Mormon 
Island and Salmon Falls, for about three months; then devoted his services to a 
private hospital, in Sacramento, for eighteen months; in 1851, moved to the 
place where he now resides; he devotes his time to farming, fruit-growing, 
stock-raising, and dairy business; married Miss Ann Doyle in 1851; she was born 
in Ireland; they have seven daughters. He has held the office of Constable, and 
at the present time is a School Trustee. 

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