Sacramento County Biographies

S. DWYER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	wholesale and retail grocer, corner Sixteenth and J streets, 
Sacramento; was born in Ireland in 1828, and came to St. Louis, Missouri, via 
New Orleans, in 1847; in 1853 came overland to California, and mined at 
Placerville until 1857; returned to St. Louis, where he married, and with wife 
came to Sacramento. After two years of a mercantile life, moved to Auburn, 
Placer County, and sold goods there for sixteen years; came back to Sacramento, 
and established in present location in 1869. Married Kate Geary in 1857, who was 
born in Ireland in 1840. There were born to them eight children, six of whom are 
now living: Mary, born in Sacramento, September 15, 1858; Edward, born in 
Auburn, July 27, 1864; William L., born in Auburn, May 20, 1866; George, born in 
Auburn, July 7, 1868; Emma, born in Sacramento, November 17, 1872; Frank, born 
in Sacramento, September 14, 1875. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.