Sacramento County Biographies

M. SPRAGUE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 279.

	farmer, dairyman and stock raiser; Post Office, Sacramento; lives 
two and one-half miles from Masonic Building, Sacramento; has one hundred and 
forty acres of land, valued at $25,000. He was born at Batavia, Genesee County, 
New York, in 1820; moved with his parents in 1830 to Ohio, and in 1838 to 
Michigan, where he engaged in farming; in 1841 he removed to Indiana, and worked 
at carpentering until 1852, when he came across the Plains, and settled at his 
present location. He married Miss Nancy M. Smith in 1845, a native of Otsego 
County, New York. They have one son and two daughters. A view of his place is 
given elsewhere. 

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