Sacramento County Biographies CALEB CHANCEY HAYDEN Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP. Page 284. was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1816, and remained in his native State till 1849, engaged in book and stationery business; came to California in 1849, and went to the placer mines; returned to Sacramento and engaged in the commission business; changed afterwards to auction business, then to hotel business, and again to commission business, which he has since followed in connection with insurance. On Mr. Hayden's first trip to California he was one of the owners of the brig Rodolph. He has held the office of Alderman in Sacramento City, his Post Office. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.