Sacramento County Biographies

J. H. SAWYER

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Galt; was born in New Hampshire, in 1830; removed to 
Massachusetts in 1846, and lived there until 1850, engaged in carpentering; he 
then moved to New York, and worked at his trade until 1852, when he went to 
Wisconsin, and continued working at his trade until 1853; he came across the 
plains to California in that year, and stopped a short time in El Dorado County; 
in the fall of the same year he came to this county; in 1856, he returned to 
Wisconsin, and resided there until 1859, when he crossed the plains again, and 
came to this State; he owns nine hundred and forty acres of land. He was 
married, in 1856, to Jennie C. Newcomb, a native of New York; they have four 
children two sons and two daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.