Sacramento County Biographies

HIRAM S. RATTAN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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ALABAMA TOWNSHIP.
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	Lives six miles from Galt, which is his Post Office, and 
sixteen miles from Ione; was born in Wisconsin in 1853, and lived there until 
1862; came to California and settled in this county, with his parents, in that 
year, and remained here until 1866; he then went to San Joaquin County, and 
resided until 1873, when he moved to Calaveras County, and engaged in sheep 
raising until 1878; in that year he removed to his present home, and is farming 
on three hundred and twenty acres, rented of his father, James Rattan, who lives 
near Acampo, San Joaquin County. Mr. Rattan was married in 1876 to Flora E. 
Crawford, a native of Michigan, who came to this State with her parents about 
1863; they have two children�Ada L., born October 3, 1877, and Herbert L., born 
March 8, 1879.  His property is worth about $3000.

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