Sacramento County Biographies

JAMES M. ENOS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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	Lives seven miles southeast of Sacramento; was born in Vermont, 
in 1813; removed to New York, in 1829, and clerked in a dry-goods store until 
1833, when he went to sea, as super-cargo, on ship Washones; he was thus engaged 
until 1836; in that year he returned to Vermont, and remained until 1837; he 
then moved to Illinois, and was engaged in farming and merchandising there until 
1852; he had a store in Wisconsin at the same time. He came to California, 
across the Plains, in 1852, and followed mining and merchandising, on Indian 
Creek, for two winters, spending the summers in Sacramento; he has been engaged 
in farming for the last twenty years; owns eighty acres, worth, with 
improvements, about five thousand dollars. He was married, in 1840, to Miss E. 
J. Foote, a native of New York; they have living, one son and three daughters. 
Mr. E. held the office of Deputy Assessor, under Dray. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.