Sacramento County Biographies

CHARLES DICKSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 272.
 
	lives twelve miles from Sacramento and two miles from Elk 
Grove---his Post Office; was born in Germany in 1818, and lived there until 
1850, engaged in farming; he emigrated to the United States in that year, and 
engaged in farming in Madison County, Illinois until 1853; he started across the 
plains June 1 of that year, with cattle and sheep for California; spent the 
following winter in Salt Lake. City; he resumed his journey May 1, 1854, and 
arrived in this State in July; he settled with his stock near Stockton, and 
followed farming and dairying about eighteen months. He moved to this county in 
April, 1856, and settled where he has since lived, and is still engaged in 
farming, stock-raising and dairying; owns four hundred and eighty acres of land, 
worth with improvements about $15,000. Mr. Dickson was married in 1850 to Miss 
F. Stapel, also a native of Germany. They have living four sons and two 
daughters. A view of his ranch is given on another page. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.