Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN PATTERSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
Page 266.
 
	Lives eighteen miles from Sacramento and nine miles from Elk 
Grove his Post Office; was born in Ireland in 1839; emigrated to the United 
States in 1848 and lived a short time in New Orleans; subsequently he removed to 
Galena, Illinois, and remained there until 1852; he came to California in that 
year and resided in Sierra County until 1859, when he settled in this county and 
engaged in farming; owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres of hand, worth, with 
improvements, about $10,000. He was married in 1878 to Miss Anna English, a 
native of Illinois; they have one child a daughter. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.