Sacramento County Biographies

WM. R. GRIMSHAW

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
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	Was born in 1826, in a house opposite the present Academy of 
Music, New York City. He has made two trips and return to England; first in 
1829, returning 1831; second, 1832, returned 1837. In 1837 he went to Mobile, 
Alabama, where he remained till 1841; thence to New York, to Charleston, S. C., 
to �Interior,� to New York City again, to Burlington, Vt., and, for the third 
time, to New York City. In 1847-48 he went before the mast, on the ship �Isaac 
Walton,� bound for California. Arrived in Monterey Bay, he shipped on the 
�Anita,� a naval tender. He left the �Anita� in October, 1848, to keep books for 
S. Brannan & Co. at Sutter's Fort, at a salary of $400 per month. In November, 
1849, he formed partnership with Wm. Daylor, and kept a store at Daylor's Ranch, 
on Cosumnes River, where he has since resided. Mr. Grimshaw married Mrs. Sarah 
P. Daylor. They have seven children, viz. : Wm. R., Jr., Thos. Winturn, Emma 
(wife of W. D. Lawton, of San Francisco), George, Jno. Francis, Frederick, 
Walter. The sons all reside on the old Daylor Ranch. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.