Contra Costa-Calaveras County CA Archives Biographies.....Davis, William A. 1859 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILLIAM A. DAVIS.—This young merchant of Somersville is a native of Schuylkill
county, Pennsylvania, born April 25, 1859. When but two years and six months
old, Mr. Davis' parents immigrated to California, and first settled in Calaveras
county, where they resided until 1868, when they came to Nortonville, Contra
Costa county, where our subject attended the common schools and received his
primary education. He afterward entered the Pacific Business College, of San
Francisco, and graduated from that institution in 1877. Mr. Davis then entered
the employ of W. W. Dodge, of Nortonville, as salesman, where he remained for
four years. In July, 1881, he moved to Somersville, and engaged, in partnership
with Mr. Hughes, in the general merchandise business, in which he still
continues, under the firm name of Davis and Hughes. He is unmarried.

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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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