Sacramento County Biographies

W. B. McKENNEY

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
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	lives eight miles from Sacramento, and the same distance from 
Florin, which is his Post Office. Was born in Illinois, in 1846, and lived there 
until 1862; he came to California in that year, and engaged in mining in El 
Dorado County until 1868; he then went to Nevada and mined until 1869, when he 
moved to Merced County, and was in the sheep business until 1877. That same year 
he removed to his present residence, where he is engaged in farming and fruit 
culture. He owns forty acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $1500. Mr. 
McKenney was married in 1875 to Anna M. Carrington, a native of New Jersey, who 
has borne him one son Wallace Erle, born August 22, 1877. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.