Sacramento County Biographies

ABRAHAM B. VENABLE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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	was born in Prince Edward county, Va., in 1840. He 
graduated at College in 1857, and in the law in 1860. He entered the Confederate 
army in April, 1861, as a private, and participated in most of the battles of 
the Army of Northern Virginia. He was promoted several times, wounded three 
times and taken prisoner once. At the close of the war he practiced law at 
Farmville, Va. Founded the Planters' Bank of that place and was one of its 
officers for six years; also Banking and Insurance Co. of same place, and was 
its President for six years. He established and edited The New Commonwealth, a 
newspaper of Farmville, and subsequently founded the Daily Appeal at Petersburg, 
Va. Bought out the Daily Index and combined with the Appeal into the Daily 
Index-Appeal, which he edited until he became editor of the Richmond Enquirer. 
He was Director of the State Central Lunatic Asylum three years; was District 
Military Examiner for three years. He was financially ruined in the panic of 
1873. He then came to California and edited the Daily Examiner of San Francisco, 
nine months. He was Secretary of the State Board of Transportation 
Commissioners. He is now practicing law at No. 45 Fourth street, Sacramento. He 
was married, March 28, 1865, to Miss Sally Spotwood Bridges, a native of 
Richmond, Va. 

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