Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN SILBERHORN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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NATOMA TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Mormon Island; lives three-quarters of a mile 
from that town and three and a half miles from Folsom; was born in New York 
City, in 1849, and lived there until 1853; he came to California in that year, 
with his parents, by way of the Isthmus, and lived at Salmon Falls until 1869; 
he then removed to Mendocino County, and remained there four years, when he 
removed to Mormon Island; has been engaged in mining ever since he came to the 
County; he has been Ditch Agent for the Natoma Water and Mining Company for the 
last six years. Mr. Silberhorn was married October, 1873, to Miss Catherine 
Hart, who was born near Mormon Island; they have three children two boys and a 
daughter. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.