Sacramento County Biographies

NATHAN PATTON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Walsh Station; lives fourteen miles from 
Sacramento; was born in Missouri in 1810, and lived there until 1853, engaged in 
farming; he came to California in that year, across the plains, and was in El 
Dorado County until 1858, when he came to this county; owns one hundred and 
sixty acres, worth, with improvements, about $1500. He was married in 1835 to 
Miss E. Stephenson, a native of Kentucky; she died 1849; he was married again in 
1850 to Miss A. E. Wilson; they have, living, five sons and three daughters. Mr. 
Patton's father was killed in Missouri by the Indians in 1810, the year of his 
birth. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.