Sacramento County Biographies

HORACE H. SEATON 

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	was born in Weathersfield, Connecticut, and educated at the 
Public High School in Newark, New Jersey. He was a clerk in his father's store 
at Newark when but a lad of twelve years. When sixteen he became a member of the 
firm, and subsequently served in the great house of A. T. Stewart & Co., New 
York. In 1862, under the advice of, and in company with his uncle, C. P. 
Huntington, he came to California, and found his first employment in the dry 
goods house of Hardy & Hall, J street. He was soon after given the position of 
bookkeeper with Huntington & Hopkins, and served in that capacity until admitted 
to the firm, January 1, 1868. He retired from the firm January 1, 1877, and, 
since May, 1878, has resided in the City of Oakland. 

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