Monterey-El Dorado-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Lloyd, David W. 1831 - 1891
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

DAVID W. LLOYD, deceased-It is safe to say that very few men, if any, held in a
greater degree the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens than this well
known California pioneer.

  He was a native of the Empire State, born near the city of Rome, Oneida
county, May 1, 1831, and was of Welsh descent. He attended the public schools of
his native town until about thirteen years of age, and one year's study at
Whitesboro College, New York, terminated his school days.

  Inclining to business rather than a professional life, he went to New York
city, and for three years clerked in a wholesale mercantile establishment. He
then, after spending a few months in Boston, Massachusetts, went (in 1847) to
New Orleans, from which point he boated on the Mississippi river to St. Louis.

  March, 1849, found young Lloyd at Fort Leavenworth, making preparations for a
journey across the plains to California. He commenced his overland trip the
following April and arrived at Georgetown, El Dorado county, California, June 1,
1850, having wintered in Salt Lake. He engaged in placer mining in Oregon Canon
for a time. For lack of water there, he removed to Nevada City, Nevada county,
and there remained, with varied success, till the fall of 1853. In 1854 he
engaged in merchandising at Santa Cruz, continuing there until 1860. He then
returned East, and conducted a hotel business for two years in New York. He
could not, however, dispel the desire to return to California, and again he
sought this coast. Locating in Santa Cruz, he engaged in the livery and
lumbering business. In these ventures he met with financial reverses, and went
out of business. He spent two years in San Francisco, and then embarked in the
fruit business at Santa Clara, remaining there eight years. He located at
Salinas, Monterey county, in 1874, where he was successfully engaged in the
grocery and provision trade until January, 1887, when he became one of the first
permanent residents and a merchant of Pacific Grove. Here he lived until the
time of his death, September 8, 1891.

  Mr. Lloyd was married in 1860, at New York city, to Miss Elizabeth F.,
daughter of Dr. R. Wellington Roberts. Dr. Roberts was a successful practicing
physician of New York, an Englishman by birth and education; came to America at
about twenty-two years of age. He married in England, and during the first years
of his professional life in New York lived at Troy, where Mrs. Lloyd was born
November 8, 1841. She is a lady of fine domestic tastes, good judgment and
Christian fortitude. She has four daughters living: the Misses Marguerita,
Leonia and Mabel; and Mrs. Carrie L., wife of J. O. Johnson, a leading
capitalist and business man of Pacific Grove.

  David W. Lloyd was a man of many admirable qualities of mind and heart. He was
generous and open-handed to a fault. He was buoyant and cheerful in his nature
and always approachable. He was an ambitious and somewhat aggressive business
man, a man for emergencies. Reverses he met without complaint or misgivings. He
was never lacking for resources of mind to devise means of recovery. He was
broad in conceptions, and, while not despising small things, he inclined to
broad and liberal deals in all his business. He possessed great personal pride
and love for his family; was in the highest degree and truest sense of the term
a loyal husband and a fond father. Home was his retreat from the bustle of
business and cares of a busy outside life. He was a public-spirited man. No
citizen was more ambitious for the growth and building up of his town than David
W. Lloyd. He was active in all movements tending to the public good, foremost in
educational matters, and the promoter and a director of the bank of Pacific
Grove. His death was a grievous loss to Monterey county and his home town. The
funeral took place at the Methodist Church, of which he was a constant
attendant, and all that was mortal of this esteemed pioneer of 1850 was laid to
rest September 10, in El Carmelo cemetery, overlooking the peaceful and placid
waters of Monterey bay.

  The business which Mr. Lloyd established and so successfully conducted at
Pacific Geove, [sic] continues under the supervision of his widow and the three
unmarried daughters, ladies of excellent social accomplishments, popular in
society and possessed of fine business abilities.


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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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