Sacramento County Biographies

A. F. CORE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 271.
 
	lives eighteen miles from Sacramento and four miles from 
Georgetown, his Post Office; was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1830, and 
remained there until 1852; he then moved to Iowa and engaged in farming until 
1859; he came to California in that year and engaged in mining at Shasta; 
subsequently he ran farm machinery until 1861, when he settled in this county, 
and soon after, on the place where he now lives; owns two hundred and forty 
acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $4000; he is now engaged in 
farming and running farm machinery. Mr. Core has held the office of Road 
Supervisor and School Trustee. He was married in 1863 to Elizabeth L. Carroll, a 
native of Indiana, and who has borne him five children, all of whom are 
living---three sons and two daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.