Sacramento County Biographies

P. COFFIELD

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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AMERICAN TOWNSHIP.
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	Lives one and a half miles from Sacramento, which is his Post 
Office; was born in Denmark in 1843, and lived there until 1862; he came to 
England, and followed the life of a sailor until 1868; he came to California in 
that year by way of Australia, and engaged in farming in this county until 1874; 
he then moved to Sacramento City, and was proprietor of Sierra Nevada saloon for 
about four years.  In 1878 you removed to his present place of business, at the 
Shed, American River bridge, where he keeps a saloon, just north of the Toll 
Bridge.
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.