Sacramento County Biographies

H. FISHER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Brighton; lives nine miles east of Sacramento; was born 
in Maryland in 1828; removed when quite small, with his parents, to Illinois, 
and lived there until 1846, working at coopering; - in that year he moved to 
Missouri, and remained until 1853, engaged in threshing; he then came across the 
Plains as far as Salt Lake City, and stopped there until 1855, when he came to 
this State, and settled in this county; owns four hundred and twenty acres, 
worth, with improvements, about $5,000. He was married in 1852 to Miss E. F. 
Clark, a native of New York; she died in 1864. He was married again, in 1866, to 
Miss Sarah Kingkade, a native of Massachusetts. They have two sons and two 
daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.