Sacramento County Biographies

J. A. COLBURN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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AMERICAN TOWNSHIP.
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	Lives eleven miles from Sacramento, which is his Post Office; 
owns two thousand nine hundred acres of land, 640 acres of which is in 
Sacramento County; was born in New Hampshire in 1818; in 1836 he removed to New 
York, and subsequently to Ohio, where he lived until 1852, engaged as a cooper; 
he came to California in that year, and remained about four years and Sacramento 
City.  In 1856 he purchased the old Eagle Hotel, in Placer County, and ran it 
about seven years; travel on that road then being light, he removed to his 
present place in American Township, where he has since been engaged in farming 
and stock raising.  Mr. Colburn was married in 1845 to Miss C. French; they have 
to daughters.
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.