Sacramento County Biographies

L. CRENSHAW

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 271.
 
	lives in Florin, ten miles from Sacramento; was born in Illinois, 
in 1846. When still an infant he moved to Iowa, and lived there until 1868, 
being engaged the latter years in working for a railroad as a blacksmith; he 
then moved to Nebraska, and was engaged in stock-raising and blacksmithing there 
until 1876; in that year he came to California and to this county; is now 
engaged in blacksmithing, sheet-iron and pump work, and fruit culture; owns 
eleven acres, worth, with improvements, about $4000. Mr. Crenshaw has held the 
office of Justice of the Peace. He was married in 1864 to Maria James, a native 
of Iowa, who has borne him seven children, four of whom are living---Minnie, 
born August 11, 1866; Curtis, born November 27, 1870; Henry, born January 29, 
1873; and Lulu, born July 13, 1876. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.