Sacramento County Biographies

M. A. FRY

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Walsh Station; lives thirteen miles from Sacramento, on 
the Jackson road; was born in Pennsylvania in 1830; removed with his parents in 
1837 to Virginia, and remained there till 1843, when he went to Iowa, but 
returned to Virginia the next year, and lived there until 1846; he then returned 
to Iowa, and resided there until 1859; he came to California in that year, and 
settled in Placer County; while there he was engaged in mining, teaming, hotel 
keeping, and the mill business; he came to this county in 1868, and has since 
been farming; owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth about $2500. Mr. 
Fry was elected Justice of the Peace in 1875, and served two years. He was 
married in 1852 to Miss H. Barnum, a native of New York; they have five children 
living, three sons and two daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.