Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN McCOMBER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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NATOMA TOWNSHIP. 
Page 268-269.
 
	Post Office, Folsom; lives four miles from that town, and two 
miles from Mormon Island; was born in the State of New York in 1836, and lived 
there until 1853; he spent five years in the States of Illinois, Iowa and 
Wisconsin; came to California in 1858, by way of the Isthmus, and settled in 
this county; he has been engaged in farming and teaming ever since he came to 
the State; owns three hundred and twenty acres of land in this county, and five 
hundred acres in El Dorado County; his land is worth about $8000. Mr. McComber 
has held the offices of Constable and Deputy Sheriff. He was married in 1864 to 
Miss M. Davison, a native of Massachusetts; they have five children two sons and 
three daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.