[Images obtained from 'History of Sacramento County California' in 1880, published by Thompson & West, Oakland, Cal. 1880]
[Images obtained from 'History of Sacramento County California' in
1880, published by Thompson & West, Oakland, Cal. 1880]
Sacramento County
Biographies
Information thanks to Nancy Pratt Melton:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sacbio1.htm
Crabtree I.J.
lives ten miles from Galt, which is his Post Office, and
twelve miles from Ione; was born in Illinois, in 1834, and lived there until
1853; he came to California in that year and engaged in mining in El Dorado
County, until 1858, when he settled on his present place, and is now engaged in
farming and stock-raising. He was married in 1859 to Sarah
A. Haller, who was born August 15, 1846, in Montgomery County, Illinois; she
came to California 1856 with her parents, Henry and Margaret Haller; they were
wrecked on the Golden Age, just outside the Golden Gate; her parents have
since died at her home.
Mr. Crabtree has four
children—Henry F., born June 13, 1861; George L., born November 20, 1863; Edith
E., born February 9, 1866; Jacob L., born January 3, 1874.
He owns twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, which, with improvements, are
worth about $20,000.