Marin County Biographies

WILLIAM T. SALE

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              Is a native of Derbyshire, England, having been 
born there November 16, 1841.  Is the son of Joseph Sale, who was farmer, hotel 
owner and grain merchant; was taken to Warwickshire when young; after leaving 
school, chose the trade of joiner and builder.  After finishing his 
apprenticeship, in 1863, he came to America, and after working at this trade in 
the cities of New York, Boston and New Jersey, in this country, returned to 
England and joined his father, as traveling agent and buyer for him in 
Birmingham.  At the end of two years he started on a tour which included New 
Zealand, Tasmania and several of the Australian colonies and Pacific islands, 
arriving at San Francisco in 1869, which year he came to San Rafael and worked 
at his trade until May, 1874, when he established the furniture and carpet 
business, which he now conducts.  Married, September 19, 1878, E. A. Walton, by 
whom he has one child, Eva, born July 4, 1879.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880