Sacramento County Biographies

GRAHAM K. VAN HEUSEN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	of the firm of Van Heusen & Huntoon, manufacturers of and 
wholesale and retail dealers in furniture, J street, Sacramento, was born in 
Albany, New York, in 1814, where he engaged in carpentering until 1837, and then 
he went to Brooklyn, where he was a manufacturer of sashes, doors and blinds. In 
1849 he came to California by way of the Isthmus, arriving in Sacramento October 
11, 1849. He immediately embarked in the contracting business. The first house 
he erected was the Elephant House; he also built the Sutter Hotel and several 
buildings for Samuel Brannan. Having brought with him sash and door tools he had 
a monopoly of the business for a time. In 1854 he started in the furniture 
business and in 1868 received J. L. Huntoon as partner. In 1852 he married Miss 
Sarah Harned, born in New York, in 1823, who died in 1876. They have three sons 
and two daughters. 

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