Sacramento County Biographies

J. R. WILLIAMS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
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	farmer; Post Office, Sacramento; has one hundred and sixty 
acres of land; valued at $5,000. He was born in Michigan in 1843, and remained 
there until 1854, when the family moved to North Carolina, and engaged in 
farming and mining until 1865. In that year he came to California by the Isthmus 
route, and followed mining in Amador and El Dorado Counties for nine years, when 
he came to Sacramento County and engaged in farming on his present location; he 
was foreman of mines for H. D. Bacon for seven years. In 1868 he married Miss 
Mattie J. McGee, a native of California; they have one son and three daughters.

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