Amador County Biographies

JOHN SANDERSON

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Is a native of Ireland, and was born in the month of June, 1830. He remained in the " Emerald Isle," 
until he reached his seventeenth year, at which time he came to America, and settled in the grand old 
State of New York, where he remained three and one-half years. He then removed to New Jersey, 
and was a resident of that State until he came to the Pacific coast in 1864. Having had experience on 
the " briny deep " in his trip from his native country to the United States, he naturally chose the steamer 
as his mode of conveyance, and arrived in California by way of the Isthmus of Panama in due time, sound 
of limb and buoyant in spirits, seeking like all others an easy fortune in the mines of this State. His first 
location was at Sutter Creek, in Amador county, where he followed the occupation of a miner for 
about six years. From his savings he purchased the beautiful ranch that is now his home, located about 
one and one-half miles west of Sutter Creek. This home place of Mr. Sanderson's is admirably situated 
and contains 320 acres of choice land, which he is cultivating in a manner that is bound to make it productive. 

He was married on the 13th of February, 1863, to Miss Katy Hughes, a native of New York, and their 
union has been blessed with eight children, seven of whom are living. The only son born to them was 
called to the other world on Thanksgiving day, 1879. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.