Sacramento County Biographies

G. HAINES

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 284.
 
	was born in Germany in the year 1814, emigrated to America in 1836, 
and located in Wisconsin. Left Wisconsin for California in 1851, and for nine 
years conducted a business for himself. At the election of 1861 Mr. Haines was 
elected Justice for Sacramento City, and served two years. Again in 1866 he was 
re-elected and served till 1870, and again in 1872 he was chosen to the same 
place, which he now holds. In early times in California, Mr. Haines encountered 
severe trials; he passed through the hardships of the two great fires of 
Sacramento, and has seen the city flooded more than once. Is a married man. Post 
Office, Sacramento. 

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