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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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522 HISTORY OF NORTHERN OALIFORNIA. the Grand Lodge. Mr. Parker is at the present time vice-president of the Bank of Vacaville, and also president of the Fruit-growers’ Association, of Vacaville. This in brief is the outline of one of Vaca. ville’s most honored citizens. Being possessed of a spirit of enterprise and never idle a moment, his life is one continual round of activity. Being sympathetic and kind in his nature, he is ever a welcome friend to the society of his associates. He displays an active interest in every work that promises the elevation and welfare of mankind, and through his generous nature is helpful in the different societies of which he is an honored member. ~ SEA oe DAVIS, a prominent farmer of Sutter County, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, March 20, 1830, son of Isaac and Edith (Richards) Davis. His father was at first a teacher and afterward a farmer. He moved to Lee County, Iowa, in 1840, and followed farming there until his death, at the age of sixty-four years; his wife died there also. When a youth Mr. Eli Davis learned the trade of distilling, working at it three yearsThen he moved to lowa and followed farming there until 1852, when he came to California across the plains with ox teams, in company with a neighbor, being three months on the way. They first stopped at Whiskey Diggings and tried their hand at mining and digging ditches for the purpose of prosecuting their work. The approaching winter filled their ditches with snow and Mr. Davis, being out of . money, went to Marysville and cut wood. After . several changes he was engaged by Philip Heffner, a teamster of Marysville, for $75 a month. where he cut hay, worth from $70 to $80 per Next he went to the Butte mountains . ton; and after they had cut about twenty tons . the price went down. Then he went to Maryville, where he followed teaming until theautumn . of 1885; then in partnership he ran a livery stable, but too much credit nearly broke him up, as he found in 1858 that the firm was $300 worse off than nothing. He then purchased a ranch on time, and began raising cattle. In 1868 he came upon his present place, nine miles southwest of Marysville and four miles south of Sutter City, and commenced dairying and stockraising, at length making a specialty of sheep and farming. During the war he was Captain of the Butte Mountain Rangers for a year. For twelve years he has been a member of the Board of Supervisors. He has now about 3,000 acres of land and devotes his attention to general farming and the raising of sheep. All the improvements upon the place he has made himself. He was married in 1860, to Miss Sophia . Hindman, and they have two sons and six danghters. 38-6 HOMAS CHARLTON, one of the leading i blacksmiths of Ukiah, was bern in Chester County, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1841. His parents, Robert and Catherine (Lewis) Charlton, were also natives of the Keystone State; the father was descended from German ancestors who were among the early settlers of the State, and the mother was of French and Welsh descent. Mrs. Charlton passed from this life in 1885, leaving eight children to mourn her death. Thomas is the second of this family; he was educated in the public schools, and remained on his father’s farm until he was seventeen years of age; he then went to learn the trade of a blacksmith, in which he has since been engaged. In 1859 he emigrated to the Pacific coast, first locating at Suisun City, Solano County, California; there he resided until 1863, having {n the autumn of 1863 he visited Lakeport, California, and remained there during the following winter. In the spring following he came to Ukiah, where he worked at his trade as a jonrspent a portion of his time in Nevada.