Sacramento County Biographies

E. R. PARVIN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Courtland; lives four miles from that place, and 
twenty-five miles from Sacramento; was born in Pennsylvania, in 1815; removed to 
Ohio, with parents, in 1823; moved to Indiana in 1825, and lived there until 
1828, when he went to Illinois, and remained there until 1849; in that year he 
came to California, but stopped only a short time, and then returned East; he 
came back to this State in 1851, and settled on the Sacramento River in 1856; is 
now engaged in farming, vegetable and fruit-raising; owns six hundred and fifty 
acres, worth with improvements, about $34,000. He was married, in 1861, to Miss 
Eliza Kelley, a native of New York, who has borne him a son and a daughter, both 
of whom are dead. 

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