Sacramento County Biographies

WM. M. SIDDONS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	Proprietor of Occidental Exchange Saloon, 204 J street, 
Sacramento ; was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1826. Went into U. S. Naval 
Service in 1838, which he left in 1841, and engaged in merchant marine service 
until 1846, when he re-entered the naval service on U. S. ship "Ohio," serving 
at Vera Cruz, and also on Pacific Coast. Was discharged at San Francisco, 
August, 1849. Engaged in business pursuits in Benicia until February, 852, and 
then mined in various places until 1856, in which year he came to Sacramento, 
and has ever since been identified with the business of the city. He is a life 
member of Sacramento county Society of Pioneers, and is the owner of the famous 
field piece Union Boy, and under his command the Union Squad have done some 
remarkable artillery feats with it. Notably, on October 24, 1879, 22 rounds were 
fired in honor of Gen. Grant in 2 minutes and 10 seconds. 

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