Plumas-Nevada-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Davis, Aaron 1813 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

AARON DAVIS.—This gentleman was born at Newark, New Jersey, May 24, 1813. When
six years of age he accompanied his parents to Mount Vernon, Ohio, which he made
his home for sixteen years. He then went to Cincinnati, and was engaged for
three years in mercantile pursuits, being also one of the contractors of the
Illinois and Michigan canal, commenced in 1836. In 1840 he went to Grant county,
Wisconsin, and was occupied in merchandising and smelting lead, serving as
deputy sheriff for two years. In 1849 he came overland to California, via the
Lassen trail, arriving in Marysville September 21, 1849. He spent four years in
mining, and then settled in Nevada county, where he engaged in merchandising,
milling, and mining. In 1867 he removed to Sierra valley, and bought a ranch of
320 acres one mile west of Sierraville, on which he has since lived. Mr. Davis
was a delegate to the state republican convention in 1872, and was elected a
supervisor from the third district, in 1879. He was married December 25, 1838,
at Ottawa, Illinois, to Miss Emma O'Hara, daughter of Captain William O'Hara of
the British army. Their children are Morris W., born May 10, 1843; Wood B., May
21, 1847; Thornton E., July 18, 1855; George G., January 21, 1858; Emma M.,
December 3, 1859; Aaron Davis, Jr., June 2, 1862. Morris married Grace Cullen in
1864, and is living in San Francisco; Emma was wedded to H. O. Nichols of
Sierraville, in June, 1880.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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