Contra Costa County Biography

JOHN JOSEPH SULLENGER

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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               John  Joseph Sullenger was born on January 8, 1868, at Oakville, 
Napa County, California, on the ranch of George Yount. He attended the public 
school at Rutherford, and afterward, in 1882, graduated from Heald's Business 
College in San Francisco. He then worked at surveying in different parts of the 
State, and at one time helped the noted engineer, A. W. Von Schmidt. lay out the 
Marsh grant. He was next employed for some time by T. N. Wills, of Antioch. 
Eventually, in 1888, he bought  the ranch in Lone Tree Valley, where he now 
resides. In 1897 he was married to Annie Elizabeth Love, and of this union there 
are three sons and one daughter - John Dugald, born September 14, 1899, 
graduating 1917 from Liberty Union High School, Brentwood; Archibald McKinnon, 
born March 27, 1901, second year in high school 1917; Robert Love, born 
September 4, 1902, attending grammar school; Annie Elise, born May 26, 1905, 
attending Deer Valley grammar school. Mr. Sullenger still does odd jobs of 
surveying for his neighbors, and is considered an excellent mathematician.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California," Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
p.587.