Sacramento County Biographies

B. S. NILES

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 278.

	farmer and fruit-grower, lives three-fourths of one mile from the 
city limits of Sacramento, his Post Office; owns six acres of land, valued, with 
improvements, at $2,000; born in Broome County, New York, in 1808; he engaged in 
shoemaking until 1853, when he crossed the plains for California; arrived in 
Sacramento December 26, 1853; followed mining in El Dorado County for one year, 
and teamed until 1857; then settled in Brighton, Sacramento County, and engaged 
in farming; in 1873, moved to present location, where he is farming and 
fruit-growing. Married Mrs. Pruett, who was born in Kentucky, and came to 
California in 1851; they have one son and four daughters. Mr. Niles has held the 
office of Road-Overseer. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.