Lassen County Biographies

Edward T. Slackford

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
This gentleman is a native of England, and was born in Suffolk, near Ipswich, 
November 4, 1849. In 1852 he came with his parents to the United States, 
settling in New York. Until 1861, he lived in that state, Ohio, and Iowa, when 
he came to California, and engaged in farming and mining in Lassen county. In 
1867 he purchased forty acres of land three miles east of Janesville, on which 
he now resides. In 1881 he was appointed supervisor of the Janesville road 
district. Politically, Mr. Slackford is a democrat. He is a member of the 
Masonic and Workmen lodges of Janesville. December 25, 1872, he married Miss 
Alzina Leith, born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1851. They have three children: 
Inez, born September 25, 1875; Edna Leona, April 16, 1877; Mary, September 12, 
1879.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 500