Sacramento County Biographies

REUBEN KERCHEVAL

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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	lives twenty-three miles from Sacramento and two miles from 
Courtland; he owns three hundred and thirty-four acres; was born in Ohio in 
1820; he removed with his parents in 1830 to Illinois, and lived there until 
1850; he came to California in that year and settled on the place where he is 
now living at the head of Grand Island. He was married in 1857 to Margaret W. 
Broadie, also a native of Ohio, and by whom he has had six children five sons 
and one daughter; one son is deceased. Mr. Kercheval represented the county in 
the Assembly in 1873 and 1874, and again in 1877 and '78. His land and 
improvements are worth about $30,000. Post Office, Courtland. A view of his 
place can be seen on another page. 

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