Sacramento County Biographies JAMES CONNER Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP PAGE 258. lives twelve miles from Sacramento on the Sacramento River; owns two hundred and sixty-two acres of land; was born in Ireland in 1840; he emigrated to the United States in 1859; he came to California in 1868, and settled in this county, where he is now engaged in farming. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.