Sacramento County Biographies

ALBERT GALLATIN 

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 284-285.
 
	was born in Sparta, Livingston County, New York; attended a 
country school; labored by summer to avail of educational advantages in winter; 
saved earnings enough to secure a season's course at a commercial school in 
Baltimore, and, while yet a lad, started for the great West with but nineteen 
dollars capital. This sum took him as far as Hudson, Michigan, where, by not 
despising a lowly occupation, he won the confidence of a hardware merchant, and 
soon became the chief employe in the house, where he served four years, and then 
went to St. Louis in time to deposit and lose his savings in the bank failures 
of 1857. He found a year's employment in Lexington, Kentucky; laid up sufficient 
to bring him to California, by the Panama route, in April, 1860. After failure 
as a miner at Salmon River, he reached Sacramento in June, 1861, penniless, and 
took the position as porter in the store of Huntington & Hopkins, and gradually 
rose to be a salesman. In March, 1864, he and George P. Howe opened a hardware 
store at Dayton, Nevada. In January, 1867, he sold out to Mr. Howe, and again 
took a salesman's position with Huntington & Hopkins. January 1, 1868, he became 
a member of the firm. 

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