Yolo-Sacramento-Santa Cruz County CA Archives Biographies.....Gafford, J. W. 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

J. W. GAFFORD, proprietor of the Gafford Hotel, at Davisville, California, was
born June 30, 1834, in Pike County, Missouri, a son of William C. and Nancy G.
(Clempson) Gafford, father a native of Virginia and mother of North Carolina.
The father was a mechanic and moved from his native place in Virginia to Pike
County, Missouri, where he lived about three years, then moved to Randolph
County, Missouri, where he lived until 1864, when he came to California, across
the plains, with his family, excepting two of the children who had come
previously. On arriving in this State he located first at Michigan Bar, and
afterward at Santa Cruz, and then returned to El Dorado County, where he died in
1872, at the age of eighty-two years. Mr. J. W. Gafford came to this State in
1850, when he was fifteen years old, and at once began work in the mines in
different localities, with moderate success, until 1866. He was then engaged at
various employments until 1874, when he went to Davisville and built a large and
commodious hotel on Main street. Mr. Gafford is a genial landlord, knowing well
how to conduct his well-furnished house in a faithful manner. He is a member of
Yolo Lodge, No. 169, I. O. O. F., and also of the K. of P.

  He was married in 1871, to Miss Hannah J. Benjamin, a native of Canada, and of
their four children three are living.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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