Contra Costa-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Williams, David P. 1830 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

DAVID P. WILLIAMS.—Born in Wales, May 12, 1830, where he resided until twenty
years of age, and then emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York in
June, 1851; residing there for two years, he proceeded west to Racine,
Wisconsin, where he labored at different occupations for the following nine
years. In November, 1861, our subject came via New York and Panama to
California, arriving in San Francisco December 14th of the same year, first
finding employment on a ranch near Haywards, Alameda county, where he remained
for two years. He then leased land in the same county for two years, and in the
Spring of 1866, came to Contra Costa county, leasing land on the Dougherty
ranch, for nine years. In August, 1875, he purchased his present farm of two
hundred and eighty acres, located in the Tassajara valley, where he is now
engaged in general farming. Mr. Williams was united in marriage in San Francisco
to Miss Jane Pugh, a native of Wales; by this union they have four children:
Richard D., born July 11, 1864; Lizzie J., born October 15, 1866; William, born
June 19, 1868, and Edward, born June 14,1870.

Additional Comments:
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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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