Sacramento County Biographies

C. SANBORN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 279.

	farmer and fruit-raiser; lives one mile from Sacramento, his Post 
Office. Has thirty-eight acres of land, worth, with improvements, $11,000. He 
was born in Ohio in 1854. His parents moved to Indiana in 1855. In 1870 he came 
to California and settled at his present home. He has sunk an artesian well on 
his place to the depth of sixty feet, which, with his pumping works, gives him a 
flow of 20,000 gallons per hour, irrigating his whole ranch. His father, H. E. 
Sanborn, was a native of Ohio; he was in California in June, 1849, and during 
his lifetime made three trips across the plains; he died in June, 1872, at the 
present residence of his son; his wife, Mr. Sanborn's mother, is still living 
there. Mr. C. Sanborn has two brothers living. 

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