Monterey-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Leese, David 1846 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

DAVID LEESE, son of Jacob P. Leese, was born in Sonoma county, California,
January 8, 1846. He came to Monterey county when a child, and attended the
public schools of Monterey. Then for a number of years he followed various
pursuits.

  He was married in Salinas, in 1875, to Delia Estelle, daughter of W. G.
Martin, and their union has been blessed with two sons and six daughters, all
living, namely: Herbert Primer, born in 1876: Adelaide Sophia, in 1878; Grace
Estelle, in 1880; David William, in 1882; Edith Anna, in 1884; Delia, in. 1888;
Jessie Frances, in 1890; and Bertha Pomposa, in 1892.

  Mr. Leese came to King City in the year 1885. He is now engaged in farming on
the San Bernabe ranch. On the 15th of September, 1888, a serious accident, and a
phenomenal one for California, occurred to him. The house in which he was
living, located live miles from King City, was struck by lightning and its
contents burned. Many horses and cattle were also killed from the effects of the
lightning.

  Mr. Leese has been and is still a very successful farmer, and in his chosen
pursuit has acquired a competency. He bears a reputation above reproach. Mr.
Leese comes from an ancestry of which any one might well be proud, his mother
being a sister of the distinguished General Vallejo. For further reference to
his ancestry see the various allusions to Jacob P. Leese in the general history
in this work and a sketch of him.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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