Plumas-Sierra-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Keyes, David B. 1829 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

DAVID B. KEYES.—He was born at Barry, Vermont, April 19, 1829. He started out in
life for himself when fourteen years of age, going first to New York, and then
to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he worked in the Tremont cotton manufactory for
four years. From there he proceeded to Boston, and in 1851 purchased a farm at
Belrica, which he worked until the spring of 1855, when he came to California,
via Panama. From San Francisco he went to Downieville, and engaged in packing
until the fall of 1856, when he bought an interest with his brother John in a
milk business at Nevada City, which occupation he followed for a number of
years. In the fall of 1864 he came into Sierra valley, Sierra county, and rented
a dairy ranch for four years, when he located what is now the G. W. Keyes ranch,
and carried on dairying there for three years more. In 1874 he sold the ranch
and bought the Doom hotel in Loyalton, which he ran for two years, leased it for
the same length of time, and then traded it for the Antelope Neck ranch, which
he still owns. In 1881 he bought the Dodge hotel in Loyalton, of which he is at
present manager and proprietor. Mr. Keyes was married January 13, 1851, to Eliza
Gardner of Winthrop, Maine, by whom he has had eight children: Harry G.
(deceased), Katie G. (now Mrs. Dory), Annie W., Eddie (deceased), Edwin B.,
Zenas W., May S., and Harry. He is a member of Sierra Valley Lodge No. 184, F. &
A. M. 

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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