Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN RICHARDS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
Page 266.
 
	Lives eighteen miles from Sacramento City and seven miles from 
Elk Grove his Post Office. Was born in England in 1826, and emigrated to 
Wisconsin in 1845, where he was engaged in mining. In 1849 came across the 
plains with the Rough and Ready Company, and stopped at Rough and Ready, Nevada 
County, mining. In 1850 he returned to Wisconsin, via Panama, but came back to 
this State after staying there three months. He again went to Wisconsin in 1851, 
and remained until 1853, purchasing goods for California. He then came to this 
State, and engaged in farming. In 1869 he went East by rail with the California 
Pioneers. He was married in 1852 to a Wisconsin lady, and they have three sons 
and five daughters. He owns 2000 acres of land, valued at $30,000. A view of 
this place appears in this work. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.