Sacramento County Biographies

A. WOODWARD

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. 
Page 276.
 
	lives eighteen miles from Sacramento and three and a half miles 
from Elk Grove, his Post Office. Was born in the State of New York, 1822, and 
lived there until 1849, engaged in farming. He went to Wisconsin in that year 
and remained until 1850, when he came to California across the plains, and 
followed mining in Calaveras County until 1853; he then returned East. In 1854 
he drove a large herd of cattle across the plains, and on his arrival in this 
State he settled in this county on present location, and has been engaged in 
farming and stock-raising ever since. He was married in January, 1856, to Miss 
Elizabeth Sampson, a native of England. They have one son and two daughters. Mr. 
Woodward has held the office of School Trustee.

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