Contra Costa-El Dorado-Mariposa County CA Archives Biographies.....Davis, Solomon Paul 1842 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

SOLOMON PAUL DAVIS.—The subject of our sketch was born near Independence,
Jackson county, Missouri, September 6, 1842, and when ten years of age came with
his parents with an ox-team to California, arriving at Mud Springs, El Dorado
county, on September 28, 1853, after a trip of five months and ten days from
Kansas City. Stopping but a short time, they resumed their journey to this
county, and located in the Pacheco valley, near the town of Clayton, October
17th of the same year. Young Paul was shortly afterward employed, under Captain
Steingrant, to take charge of the horses belonging to the Government post at
Benicia, the horses having been brought into this county and cared for at the
base of Mount Diablo. Following this vocation one year, he went with his
father's family to Mariposa county, where they remained until the Fall of 1857,
when they returned to Contra Costa county, and engaged in farming near the town
of Pacheco, and afterwards in the San Ramon valley. Here Paul became an
apprentice to the blacksmith's trade with his brother-in-law, Eli Browen, the
first resident of the town of Limerick. Leaving there in 1861 for White Pine, we
next find him doing a flourishing business in blacksmithing in Markleeville,
Alpine county. The mines at length having gone down, which were the chief
support of the town, Mr. Davis moved to Silver City; but, unfortunately,
contracting a cold that settled on his lungs, he left there and located at Upper
Lake, in Lake county, where he regained his health, and engaged in farming,
blacksmithing and stock-raising until 1867, when he was married to Miss Louisa
Jane Moore, January 14th; returned to this county, and engaged in blacksmithing
near Point of Timber. But after the two successive dry seasons of 1870-71, Mr.
Davis moved with his family to Mendocino county, where he purchased land in
Round valley, near the Government post called Camp Wright or Round Valley
Reservation, where he prospered until the restoration of part of the reservation
to the public domain, when he became involved in litigation over the title of
his land, which he lost through the mere technicalities of law. Abandoning his
home that years of toil had built up, he came back to the county that so many
times had been his refuge, and we now find him doing an extensive blacksmithing
business in company with J. F. Carey, under the firm of Carey & Davis, at
Brentwood. By their union, Mr. and Mrs. Davis have two children, Carrie May and
William Turley.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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