Lassen-Yuba-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Titherington, David 1810 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

DAVID TITHERINGTON.—This gentleman was born in County Douen, Ireland, September
11, 1810. The following year the family moved to the United States, and David
lived in New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana until 1849, when he sailed for
California on the ship Dalmatia, rounding the Horn, and arriving in San
Francisco in August, 1850. He mined nine years at Parks' Bar, Nelson creek,
Elizabethtown, and Bean hill. In 1859 he came to this valley, and in July, 1860,
purchased, with John S. Ward, the land located by Peter Lassen, at
administrator's sale. This place has been his home ever since. He is a member of
the Masonic lodge at Susanville. His politics are republican. May 17, 1830, Mr.
Titherington married Miss Elizabeth Whitacre, a native of Ohio. She died
December 20,1876. Their children were John, born June 4, 1832; Robert, October,
1833; Mary E., January 14,1835; Albert, October, 1837 ; Rachel, May 11, 1840;
Lewis, March, 1843, died October 12, 1876; Joseph, February 22, 1845. They were
all born in Wayne county, Indiana.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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