THE VALLEY OF HEART's DELIGHT
LEWIS C. CASEY
Almaden Township
Santa Clara
Born in Holmes county, Ohio, April 1, 1816, and there was
educated. When four-and-twenty years of age he transferred his
resident to Lee county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming for tenyears;
thence he crossed the plains with ox-teams to California, arriving in
November , 1849. The first year Mr. Casey mined at Long's Bar on
Feather river, Butte county; then he removed to Sacramento City where
he was variously employed for three months; he next went down the
Sacramento river to Walnut Grove and farmed for two years, when,
exchanging his ranch for a cargo of wood, he proceeded to San Francisco
to find a market, it was disposed of as it was landed; in a short time
enough was realized to purchase the eighty-five acre farm on which he
now resides in Almaden township. Is unmarried.