Sacramento County Biographies

THOMAS KELLY

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

CENTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 252

	Post Office, Sacramento; lives eleven miles from that city; was 
born in Ireland in 1832. He emigrated to the United States in 1848, and lived in 
Connecticut until 1856. He came to California in that year, and resided in 
Sacramento city until 1873, being engaged in blacksmithing and keeping a saloon; 
he then moved to his ranch, present location; owns two hundred and eleven acres 
of land, worth, with improvements, about $3,500. He was married in 1859 to 
Margaret Mooney, also a native of Ireland; they have three children, a son and 
two daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.