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(who is C.V. Brockway?)
Sacramento County Biographies 1880
SUTTER TOWNSHIP. Page 276.
BROCKWAY, C. V., ferryman and farmer, lives on the Freeport road, two and one-half miles from Sacramento, his Post Office; owns one hundred and ninety acres of land, valued at $35,000; born in New London County, Connecticut, in 1807; went to the city of New York in 1822, where he learned the trade of coachmaker, and remained until 1828, in which year he went to Washington, D. C.; in 1837 removed to Louisville, and entered the coach and wagonmaking business, also ran an omnibus in the city; in April, 1849, started from St. Joseph, Missouri, across the Plains, for California, and arrived in Hangtown August 4, 1849; kept general merchandise store until November; then removed to Sacramento, and located at corner of Seventh and K streets; built the first house in that vicinity; engaged in general merchandising. In 1851 moved to his present place, where he has since been engaged in hop and fruit growing. He was first married in 1833. Married Miss M. E. Offott, from Georgetown, D. C., in 1865; they have one son and four daughters.
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