Sacramento County Biographies

WILLIAM FAWCETT

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Galt; lives one and a half miles from that town; 
was born in England in 1828; emigrated to the United States when about four 
years of age, with his parents, and lived in Ohio until 1852; he came to 
California in that year, and resided in El Dorado County until 1854, being 
engaged in teaming; he then settled in this county and continued teaming; he 
moved to Dry Creek in 1862, and has since been farming; owns one hundred and 
twenty acres of land in this county, and two hundred acres in San Joaquin 
County. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.