Sacramento County Biographies

C. M. WEST

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. 
Page 257

	Post Office, Elliott, San Joaquin County; lives eight miles from 
Galt and thirty from Sacramento. He owns five hundred and sixty acres of land, 
valued at $10,000. He was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, in 1831, and moved 
to Pike County, Illinois, in 1839. Here he remained, engaged in farming, until 
1852, when he came to California. Since living in this State he has been 
variously engaged in mining, butchering, merchandising, stock-raising and 
farming. He married Miss America Baker, a native of Missouri, in 1870. They have 
one son and two daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.

ALABAMA TOWNSHIP.
Page 244

	Lives eight miles from Galt, his Post Office, and twelve miles from 
Lodi; was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, in 1831; he moved, with his 
parents, in 1838, to Pike County, Illinois, and remained there until 1852; he 
came to California in that year, and lived in Amador County, until 1854, engaged 
in mining; he then moved to Wisconsin Bar, and was engaged in selling 
merchandise to miners until 1857, when he went to Oregon; subsequently, he 
returned to his State, and followed stock-raising until his removal, in 1868, to 
his present place, when he turned his attention to farming also; he owns five 
hundred acres and sixty acres, which, with improvements, are worth about nine 
thousand dollars.  Mr. West was married, in 1870, to America Baker, a native of 
Missouri; they have had born to them five children, three of whom are living in 
-- -- Chester Franklin, born June, 1875; Alice Effie, born June, 1877; and 
infant, born April 15, 1879.  Mr. West has held the office of School Trustee.

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