Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Davis, Levi 1822 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Davis, Levi. Was born in Jackson county, Indiana, March 21, 1822. At the age of
seventeen years he settled with his parents in Warren county, Illinois, and
there resided till the Fall of 1840 when his parents moved to Green county,
Missouri, and there he commenced farming. Here he married Rebecca Lakey on
January 6, 1842. In 1852, Mr. Davis crossed the plains to California by ox-team
and arrived at Petaluma on the 29th August of that year, and first settled near
Liberty school-house in that township where he farmed until 1871. In this year
he moved to his present residence near Forrestville and occupies three hundred
acres of land on which he raises wheat and carp. His family consists of John
Valentine, Joseph, Jacob, Charles Nuton, Christopher Columbus, Phoebe, Rebecca
Zarrilda and Lydia Ann.

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by ALLEY, BOWEN & Co.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PACIFIC PRESS,
Oakland, Cal. Printers., Stereotypers and Binders.


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