Sierra-Tuolumne-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Whitney, D. L. 1827 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 22, 2006, 4:14 am Author: Fariss & Smith (1882) D. L. WHITNEY was born in Cincinnati February 3, 1827. In 1828 his parents moved to Warren county, Ohio, where he lived till 1845, when they again moved to Lee county, Illinois. When twenty-one years of age he enlisted in company G, first regiment Illinois volunteers, for the Mexican war, and served till the close of the war. In the spring of 1850 he started for California, coming across the plains with two others, and arriving sixty-five days after at Placerville. In a short time he came to Downieville, and went to mining on Durgan flat. In the fall of 1851 he was in Tuolumne county, and in the spring of 1852 in El Dorado, where he opened a store at Rock creek in the fall, and sold out in 1854. He then mined a year in El Dorado, and returned to Downieville. In 1855 he built a saw-mill on Shady flat, and has been in the lumber business ever since, now owning mills on China flat and at Howard ranch. Mr. Whitney represented Sierra county in the legislature of 1871. He was married at Marysville in 1862, to Mrs. E. A. Welch of Seneca county, New York, who died at Downieville in February, 1880. By her he had one daughter. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties San Francisco: Fariss & Smith (1882) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sierra/bios/whitney509nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb