Sacramento County Biographies

LEVI S. DART

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 271-272.
 
	lives ten miles from Sacramento, and four miles from Elk Grove, 
his Post Office; was born in Connecticut in 1839; moved to Michigan in 1841, and 
lived there until 1860; in that year he came to California, and was engaged in 
sheep herding for nearly two years; he then followed teaming one year over the 
mountains to the mines; then he turned his attention to farming; he settled 
where he now lives in 1869; owns one hundred and fifty acres of land, worth, 
with improvements, about $3,000. Mr. Dart has held the office of School Trustee; 
he was married in 1869 to Mary A. Jackson, a native of Iowa, 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.