Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Webber, David Gould 1809 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

DAVID GOULD WEBBER.—This gentleman is the son of William and Susanna Webber, and
was born in Livingston county, New York, September 12, 1809. When sixteen years
old he began working on a canal in summer, attending school in winter, and
followed this for two years, when he engaged as a drug clerk and student with
Dr. Woodworth of Springfield, Pennsylvania. Three years after, young Webber
bought him out, and continued in business for twelve years. In 1843 he closed
out his business there, and dealt in stock for two years. He went to Chicago in
1845, and bought a half-interest in a steam flouring mill, and was also a
contractor on the Illinois canal for about four years. He started for California
in December, 1849, via Panama, and upon his arrival in April, 1850, went to
Downieville, and mined during the summer of 1850. In 1851 he located the Oak
ranch near Monte Christo, but sold out the next year and bought a saw-mill in
Downieville, going also into stock-raising in Scott valley. During the four
years following, Dr. Webber superintended the building of the first wagon road
to Downieville, the first bridge across Yuba river, and the court-house, jail,
and jailer's house. He was school superintendent of Sierra county two years.
During this time, in 1852, he located all the land around what was then called
Little Truckee lake (now known as Webber lake), for a stock range, and in 1854
stocked the lake with trout, there having been previously no fish in it, because
of the falls a mile below. In 1860 he built the Webber Lake hotel there, and
opened it to the public that year. The ranch he now lives on, four miles north
of Loyalton, was located by him in 1859, where he spent the winters, and ran the
hotel at the lake during the remainder of the year, until 1877. The doctor has
practiced medicine in Loyalton for three years. The lake property is still owned
by him. In 1833 he was married to Miss Margaret Bradish of Cranerville,
Pennsylvania, by whom he had one child, James W., who was born in 1835, and died
in Sacramento in 1856. Mrs. Webber died in 1842. The doctor has raised and
educated nine orphan children, two of whom are practicing medicine, another is a
merchant, another a lawyer, and another a book-keeper. One of his pupils in
medicine he sent to Europe for two years. He is a member of the Summit lodge of
Odd Fellows.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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