Sacramento County Biographies

JAMES LANSING

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	was born in Lansingburg, New York, in 1826, where he remained, 
engaged in farming and manufacturing, till 1849. At that date he came to 
California; located in Sacramento City, where he has since resided. Mr. Lansing 
was elected to the police force in Sacramento in 1853; was elected Chief of 
Police in 1856; City Marshal in 1857; Chief of Police again in 1858; was Deputy 
Sheriff in 1862-3, and elected Sheriff in 1865. Mr. Lansing was Superintendent 
of the County Hospital in 1873. At the election of 1875 he was chosen County 
Assessor; in 1866 Mr. Lansing was the proprietor of the Union Hotel, and is now 
the proprietor of the 
International Hotel in Sacramento. Married Mrs. Mary W. Russell in 1868. They 
have one boy and three girls. Mr. Lansing owns 170 acres of fine land worth 
about $20,000. Post. Office, Sacramento. 

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