Sacramento County Biographies

ALFRED DIXON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 272.
 
	lives 12 miles from Sacramento and two miles from Elk Grove---his 
Post Office; was born in New Brunswick in 1821, and lived there until 1837, when 
he removed with his parents to Ohio, and remained there until 1843; in that year 
he went to Quincy, Illinois, and read law with O. H. Browning and N. Bushnell 
until 1845; he then moved to Porter County, Indiana, and engaged in the practice 
of law and farming until 1860. In April of that year he started across the 
plains with horse-team, and arrived in California in September. He settled at 
once in this county, on his present place; he has been engaged principally in 
farming and stock-raising ever since he came to the State; owns eight hundred 
acres of land, worth with improvements about $15,000. Mr. Dixon was married in 
1854 to Miss Martha Biggart, a native of Ohio, who bore him three sons, two of 
whom are living; she died in 1875. He was married again in August, 1877, to Mrs. 
Julia A. Hall, a native of New Brunswick. A view of his place is given 
elsewhere. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.