Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN D. MORRISON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Dark Canyon, Humboldt County; was born in 
Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1821; removed to Illinois in 1829, and lived there 
until 1849, engaged in farming; he came to California in that year across the 
plains and followed mining at Placerville until 1850; he then moved to the Forks 
of the Cosumnes River, and was engaged in running a saw-mill and farming there 
until 1859, when he moved to the place he now owns, nine miles from Sacramento, 
on the Jackson road, and since then he has been farming. Mr. Morrison lives in 
Humboldt County. He owns eight hundred and five acres, worth, with improvements, 
about $15,000. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.