Sacramento County Biographies JOHN A. HULSE Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP PAGE 260. lives twenty-two miles from Sacramento and one mile from Courtland; owns sixty acres of land partnership property; was born in Ohio in 1848, and remained there until 1872; he came to California in that year, and settled in this county; is now engaged in farming on the Sacramento River, on Randall Island. He was married in 1872 to Miss Mary L. Doty, also a native of Ohio, and who has borne him two daughters both living. His land and improvements are worth about $12,000. Post Office, Courtland. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.