Sacramento County Biographies

W. H. RUSSELL

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. 
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	 lives five miles from Galt, his Post Office, and thirty miles 
from Sacramento; he was born in California in May, 1859.  In 1871 removed to 
Sacramento City and continued at school till 1878. He then went to El Dorado 
County and engaged in the dairy business for one year. In 1879 he moved to the 
present home of eleven hundred acres (one half of which Mr. Russell owns), and 
engaged in the dairy business. The ranch is known as the Garden Valley Dairy 
Ranch, and is worth about twenty thousand dollars. This property was left Mr. 
Russell, by his father, who settled on the place in 1850, and whose decease took 
place in 1861. 

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