Sacramento County Biographies

JOSEPH GREEN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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	whose fine home makes one of the illustrations for this work, is 
a native of Germany, having spent his early years on the River Rhine. He came to 
New York at the age of eighteen; remained five years; in 1851, came to 
California, and dug gold for a year. Then bought the farm where he now lives. 
Teamed to the mines, selling the produce of his own farm at a big profit. In 
1860 Mr. Green married. Has two children a son and a daughter. Mrs. Green died 
in 1868. The farm, one of the neatest and most productive in the county, has a 
large orchard of choice fruit. Mr. Green is rich; is never idle; personally 
directs his help, and guards his interest in the farm and orchard. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.