Sacramento County Biographies JAMES M. PATTON Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP Page 250 Post Office, Walsh Station; lives nine miles from Sacramento, on the Jackson road; was born in Grizzly Flat, El Dorado County, in 1855; removed to this county in 1858, and has lived here ever since; was engaged in farming until 1877; since then he has been blacksmithing. He was married in 1878 to Miss A. E. Newingham, who has borne him one son. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.