Sacramento County Biographies

JOSIAH POOL

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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GEORGIANA TOWNSHIP. 
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	Was born in Illinois in 1830; remained till 1847. Enlisted and 
went to the Mexican war; remained in the service eighteen months; returned to 
Illinois, remained till 1852, engaged in flat-boating; then came to California, 
across the plains; went to the mines of El Dorado County and remained till 1855, 
when he came to Sacramento County, and located on Andrus Island, April, 1858. 
Married Miss Sarah Freman, a native of Missouri, who died in 1864; was married 
again to Mrs. Annie E. Wells, a native of Missouri. They have six boys and three 
girls living. Mr. Pool has held the office of First Lieutenant of the Walnut 
Grove Union Guard, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, and is now Postmaster 
at Isleton. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.