Sacramento County Biographies

WILLIAM B. MILLER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 287-289.
 
	jeweller, 628 J street, Sacramento, was born in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and remained there until 1852; then with 
parents moved to Cincinnati; two years later, to St. Louis. In 1859, at the 
early age of eleven years, came to California alone; was employed farming and 
taking charge of cattle until 1864; then learned the trade of jeweler at 
Oroville, at which he worked a few months at Grass Valley, Nevada county, 
California, and afterwards in Sacramento, until December 4, 1878, at which time 
he established his business in present locality. Married Florence M. Leet, May 
2, 1873, a native of the State of New York. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.