Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Monday, Samuel L. 1813 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

SAMUEL L. MONDAY, a farmer of Yolo County, is a son of James and Elizabeth
(Burdon) Monday; mother a native of New Jersey. The nativity of his father is
not known. He obtained his surname from the fact that he was found on Monday as
an infant on board of a wood-boat at Philadelphia. He was a farmer during his
life, finally locating in Ohio. Mr. Monday, the subject of this sketch, was born
December 6, 1813, in Philadelphia, and was but two years of age when his parents
moved with him to Ohio; in 1838 he went to Illinois and bought a soldier's
warrant to a piece of land, settled upon it, as he supposed and after gathering
one crop from it he found that he had located on the wrong quarter. He then
rented twenty acres of land and improved that for four years. Next he went back
to the vicinity of his old place and purchased 160 acres, which he occupied
until 1850. He then came to California, and in 1852 he returned by water to his
Illinois home, and in 1854 came overland to the Golden State with a quantity of
live-stock, but from 1856 to 1859 he was a resident again of Illinois, when he
came again to California with his family to remain. Being well experienced in
traveling upon the plains, he was appointed captain on the last journey. On all
the wagons was written in large letters "Monday's Delegation." Arriving in this
State, he located first in Sacramento, where he ran a hotel eight months, and
then for fifteen years he followed teaming between Sacramento and the mountains.
In 1868 he settled upon the ranch in Yolo County of 160 acres, which he now
occupies. He also owns 160 acres at Lake Tahoe and 140 acres in Ohio. Mr. Monday
has been Coroner for two years, Constable four years and Public Administrator
two years. He was married in Ohio in 1837 to Miss Harriet Gramen, born about
twenty-two miles from Cincinnati, in Ohio, and they nave had two daughters,
namely: Anna, who is now the wife of W. E. Parker, and Hattie, now the wife of
C. Scott.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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