Sacramento County Biographies

SETH B. MOORE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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COSUMNES TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Cosumnes; lives twenty miles south-east from 
Sacramento; was born in New York in 1826, and lived there until 1847; he then 
removed to Canada West, and remained there until 1852; he came to California in 
that year, and engaged in mining in El Dorado County about a year, when he went 
to San Joaquin County and resided until 1856; then he settled in this county, 
and engaged in farming; owns nine hundred and fifty acres of land, worth, with 
improvements, about $15,000. Mr. Moore was elected Supervisor in 1871, and held 
the office until October, 1878. He was married in 1872 to Miss Ellen Shaw, a 
native of Indiana. A view of his place is given on another page. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.