Sacramento County Biographies

PEYTON RUSSELL

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Brighton; lives six and a half miles east of 
Sacramento; was born in Ohio in 1818; moved to Indiana in 1829, and lived there 
until 1839, when he removed to Illinois and remained there until 1844, engaged 
in farming; in that year he went to Georgia and stopped there until 1846, 
engaged in cutting wood and cane; from there he moved to South Carolina, and was 
farming there until 1850, when he removed to Florida, and followed farming until 
1852; he then came to Illinois, but shortly afterwards went down to Louisiana, 
and from there to Texas, and then to New Orleans; he came to California and 
settled in this county in 1853, and has since been engaged principally in 
farming; owns two hundred and seventy-four acres, worth, with improvements, 
about $11,400. He was married in 1858 to Mrs. Margaret O'Shea, a native of 
Ireland; they have one child a daughter. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.