Sacramento County Biographies

GEORGE D. CONNER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
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	Lives twenty-four miles from Sacramento and four miles south 
of Cosumnes---his Post Office; was born in Kentucky in 1827, and lived there 
until 1845, when he moved to Missouri, and was engaged in clerking in a dry 
goods store until 1849. He came to California in that year, across the plains, 
but returned to Missouri in 1851; he drove cattle across the plains in 1852 to 
this State; was in the big fire in Sacramento in that year, and saved the lives 
of two persons. In 1853, he returned East again, to Kentucky, and engaged with 
his father-in-law in iron-works. He there suffered heavy loss by fire; returned 
to this State for the third time in 1859, and settled in this county. Mr. C. may 
truly say he has passed through fire and flood, as it was here that he 
experienced the discomforts of the latter. He owns 3000 acres of land, worth 
about $25,000. Was married in 1853 to Sarah J. Welsh, a native of Tennessee, who 
has borne him eight children, all of whom are living---five sons and three 
daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.